Libyan soldiers on Wednesday freed 120 would-be migrants held captive and tortured by human traffickers in the northern town of Bani Walid, the army said.

After a hiatus of more than 6 years, the first flight from Benghazi’s Benina airport arrived today at Misrata airport.

Misrata International Airport will begin resuming passenger flights to Benina Airport in Benghazi, after a 6-year hiatus.

Forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar have intercepted a Turkish ship off the North African country’s coast and towed it to the port of Ras al-Hilal, east of Benghazi, the general’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) said on Monday.

The Libyan Red Crescent on Sunday recovered 5 migrants bodies from the sea near the city of Misurata, some 250 km east of the capital Tripoli.

The chief of Misrata elders, Mohammad Rajoubi, confirmed that they had reached an agreement with a delegation of visitors from the eastern region on the release of prisoners and kidnapped persons from both sides within the coming days.

Dozens of people have rallied in Libya’s third-largest city, Misrata, for a second consecutive day to denounce corruption and deteriorating public services.

The Director of the Libyan National Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Badr Al-Din Al-Najjar, warned that the number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the capital, Tripoli and the city of Misrata, is on the increase.

US military transport planes regularly conduct flights from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany to two Libyan cities, Tripoli and Misrata, an anonymous diplomatic source told Sputnik. Both cities are currently under the control of the Government of National Accord (GNA), a Libyan government approved by the UN and in …

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) has recaptured the strategic town of Bani Walid in the country’s northwest from the forces of renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar.