The African Union called on Friday for the international community to pay “greater attention” to resolving the crisis in Libya. Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz, the Mauritanian president and head of the AU, told the body’s 24th summit that international co-ordination on the issue must continue “until the Libyan parties reach …

Libya’s internationally recognised government has said it forced a tanker not to deliver fuel to the country’s rival administration, diverting the vessel to its own territory by threatening an air attack on it.

As part of UN-brokered efforts, talks between representatives of Libya’s rival factions have been held in the Swiss city of Geneva over the last two weeks in a bid to halt the troubled North African state’s steady slide into chaos and outright collapse.

Ubari, a ramshackle desert hub hundreds of miles from Libya’s populous cities on the Mediterranean coast, was once a favored tourist destination, a picturesque pocket of the Sahara with dramatic sand dunes, oases and volcanic mountains. Now, however, it’s best known for a bloody power struggle in the desert near …

The leader of Libya’s Ansar al-Sharia armed group has died of wounds he suffered while fighting pro-government troops several months ago, family and officials have said. Al Jazeera English – Reuters To read the full article, click here.

The leader of Libya’s Ansar al-Sharia armed group has died of wounds he suffered while fighting pro-government troops several months ago, family and officials have said. Al Jazeera English – Reuters To read the full article, click here.

A parliament set up in Libya to rival the elected assembly has suspended U.N.-sponsored peace talks because of what it called fresh violence from the country’s recognized government, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

With the strong backing of the United Nations and the European Union, finally, UN special envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon’s mediation in the Libyan crisis has borne some fruit.

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expresses concern about the reported breaches of the ceasefire that the parties to the conflict had unilaterally declared earlier. The Mission urges the parties to discuss and commit to speedy concrete measures to consolidate the truce and tackle any violation.

Libya’s internationally-recognised government has recalled retired general Khalifa Haftar to army duty, officials said on Monday, cementing its alliance with him in a struggle against a rival administration claiming national authority.