Responding to yesterday’s attack on the industrial zone in Ajdabiya by militants from the “Benghazi Defence Brigades”, the Presidency Council in Tripoli has condemned it while the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk has declared a state of emergency, putting the entire area from Tobruk to Ben Jawad under military …

Civilian losses in a series of army airstrikes on Derna have sparked anger throughout Libya. The UN mission in Libya has condemned the army’s approach, warning that the deadly sorties, which have killed at last two children, could constitute a war crime.

Forces loyal to Libya’s Unity government said they have consolidated a siege around Islamic State fighters in Sirte, in preparation for the “final battle” to take the jihadi stronghold. Pushed back into a 15 to 20 square km area in central Sirte, the Islamic State Group is meanwhile scaling up …

The Defense Minister in the Government of National Accord (GNA), Al-Mahdy Al-Barghathy, demanded the retired General Khalifa Haftar and the chief of the House of Representatives (HoR), Ageela Saleh, to announce their actual stances towards the Presidential Council (PC).

TRIPOLI – The head of Libya’s unity government on Tuesday urged Libyans to rally behind forces battling to retake the city of Sirte from the Islamic State group. Prime minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj said advances by pro-government fighters in the jihadist group’s North African stronghold should be a model for “a …

TRIPOLI – Forces allied with Libya’s unity government battled Sunday to retake the Islamic State group’s last redoubts in its stronghold of Sirte, facing fierce resistance including a series of suicide car bombings.

Forces allied with Libya’s unity government have recaptured the port in Islamic State [IS] group’s stronghold Sirte, officials said on Saturday. The government of national accord [GNA] forces continue in their advance towards the city centre after retaking a residential area in the east of Sirte, spokesman Mohammed al-Aredi told …

Is the international community about to help Libya fix itself and gain stability or will it repeat the same errors of judgment and commit more mistakes than it did five years ago? Those mistakes helped make Libya become more chaotic, more ungovernable and more destabilizing to its immediate and regional …

The Presidency Council must immediately sort out the dearth of cash, food and power in the west of the country while the House of Representatives in the east must get on with a vote on the Government of National Accord, UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler told the UN Security Council in …

Security forces arrested Jihad Shandol, the so-called Islamic State (IS) mastermind. Akhbar Al-An met Shandol, who revealed information about his role in training Tunisian fighters inside Libya, facilitate their entry in Libya to committee terrorist activities.