Caretaker Prime Minister Abdullah Thenni called upon army personnel yesterday to adhere to military laws and regulations and have pride in and loyalty to the army for the defence of the nation and its borders.

Statements on Egypt’s apparent intention to intervene in Libya caused many observers to recall the sole military incident between Egypt and Libya, which occurred in 1977. However, today’s crisis is nothing like that of 1977’s crisis. Libya’s Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was a leader who is all about slogans. Back then, he dared …

As the battle between militias rages on, the Libyan state and its institutions struggle to survive.

Islamist militants took control of the biggest special forces base in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday after a battle that killed 30 people, a special forces officer said.

Scores of people have been killed in Libya as violence ramps up.

For weeks, rival Libyan militias had been pounding one another’s positions with artillery, mortar rounds and rockets in a desperate fight to control the international airport in the capital, Tripoli. Then suddenly, early Saturday morning, the fighting just stopped.

Two days before she was murdered in Benghazi on June 25, the Libyan human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis walked into a Tripoli hotel guarded by Islamist militias wearing three-inch heels and no veil.

قال مدير موقع مشروع تنفيد محطة الخليج البخارية في سرت لإنتاج الطاقة الكهربائية (1400 ميغاوات) المهندس أبوبكر مخيون: «إن الأتراك العاملين بشركة (جاما) التركية العالمية، وعددهم 650 تركيًّا من مهندسين وفنيين وعمال غادروا أمس نهائيًّا مدينة سرت إلى بلادهم (تركيا) عبر مطاري مصراتة وطرابلس الدوليين بناءً على تعليمات السفارة التركية …

على أصوات طلقات الرصاص، وقذائف المعارك الدائرة بين قوات اللِّواء المتقاعد خليفة حفتر ، والقوات المؤيدة للمؤتمر الوطني الليبي، يتجه الليبيون إلى صندوق الاقتراع الأربعاء المقبل 25 يونيو آملين في استحقاق انتخابي نزيه يوقف نزيف الدماء في البلاد، ويجنب الثورة الليبية الدخول إلى نفق مظلم على غرار ما حدث من …

Commander has managed to rally influential bodies in offensive against post-Gaddafi government but is dogged by old CIA link