BBC has aired an investigation finding evidence of alleged war crimes in Libya being widely shared on Facebook and YouTube.

The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) said unknown gunmen launched an RPG on unit 186 at Sharara oilfield before the security personnel had responded to the attackers.

At least four people were killed when air raids struck Tripoli on Sunday night, Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) said on Monday, blaming the attacks on rival Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).

The Interior Minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) Fathi Bashagha visited Turkey on Monday and met with the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss bilateral relations and the current war on Tripoli led by “warlord Khalifa Haftar” as Bashagha repeatedly described him. 

The United Nations envoy for Libya has warned countries tempted to continue backing eastern commander Khalifa Haftar that he is no democrat and his political agenda was not supported by most Libyans.

An armed group attacked Libya’s largest oilfield on Monday, but was repelled after clashes with its protection force, while fighting escalated in eastern commander Khalifa Haftar’s effort to capture the capital Tripoli, Reuters reports.

With the breakout of the Arab Spring more than eight years ago, pro-democracy activists in the Arab world and elsewhere were hopeful that the tide of democratic change might have finally reached its shores. Many who had criticised the likes of American scholar Samuel Huntington, who saw democracy as an …

Several members of the House of Representatives (HoR) announced in Tripoli on Monday that they will hold next Thursday a session in Rexos Conference Hall as per the Skhirat agreement.

Mercenaries affiliated to a security company operating in Iraq and the UAE travelled secretly from Iraq to Libya to fight alongside the troops of General Khalifa Haftar, according to electronic newspaper Arabi21. 

Fierce fighting for control of Libya’s capital that has already displaced tens of thousands of people threatens to bring a further worsening of humanitarian conditions, a senior UN official has warned.