The size of the UN mission in Libya should be reduced “substantially” amid the deteriorating security situation in the country, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

Libya‘s official Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni on Tuesday criticized the United States, Britain and European Union for failing to supply arms to his forces as they battle those of a rival government.

Some US lawmakers are starting to question the United Nations weapons ban on Libya following a lobbying blitz by regional powers after the Islamic State (IS) announced last week it had beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. 

Algeria has rejected a proposal to create an Arab regional force to intervene in crisis-hit Libya, an Algerian diplomatic source has said.

Egypt’s foreign ministry fiercely spoke out against reports that airstrikes in Libya last week killed seven civilians, which rights groups have called potential war crimes.

(New York) – At least seven civilians, including three children, died in the joint Egyptian/Libyan airstrikes on the eastern city of Derna on February 16, 2015. Libya and Egypt should conduct speedy and transparent investigations into the deaths.

Libya’s Tobruk-based parliament created a new army chief post on Tuesday, with a lawmaker and state media saying the job will go to retired General Khalifa Haftar, in a move that is likely to further antagonise the country’s rival Tripoli-based parliament.

Libya’s Tobruk-based parliament created a new army chief post on Tuesday, with a lawmaker and state media saying the job will go to retired General Khalifa Haftar, in a move that is likely to further antagonise the country’s rival Tripoli-based parliament.

New eyewitness testimonies gathered by Amnesty International indicate that the Egyptian Air Force failed to take the necessary precautions in carrying out an attack which killed seven civilians in a residential neighbourhood in the Libyan city of Derna on 16 February.

Libya is witnessing armed chaos and division of regions as well as cities, while battles and conflicts are occurring between extremist militias and the Libyan army near Libyan cities. A lot of militias spread in Libya; all of them were formed after the fall of Gaddafi’s regime. The major armament …