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Misrata council says it is still in charge as city survives militia attack

Misratan members of the House of Representatives and the State Council as well as the city’s mayor Mohamed Eshtewi and councillors have warned of growing divisions between moderates and hardliners in the city. However, they have also reassured residents that the council remains fully in control, telling them to ignore …

Inside Libya: The war for oil

“I wish you people had found water. Water makes men work. Oil makes men dream,” remarked King Idris of Libya when black gold was discovered in Libya in the 1950s. Today, the former ruler’s prophetic words seem to have come true. In al-Sidra, Libya’s largest oil terminal, which is located …

Ageela Saleh promises to pay Russia $4 billion in military debt; invites Russian Duma members to visit Libya

Some $4 billion in military debt to Russia from the Qaddafi era will be paid, the Moscow-based news agency Sputnik says it has been told by House of Representatives President Ageel Saleh.

NFA criticizes Kobler

The National Forces Alliance (NFA) had denounced the way of the UN envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, deals with the events in Libya. The NFA said, in a statement, the Kobler’s latest statements called the House of Representatives (HoR) to form a dialogue committee, while the HoR suffers from divisions …

Leaked recording reveals ‘propaganda’ against Tripoli’s anti-Haftar forces

An officer under the command of the renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar was allegedly taped talking to a media tycoon about a propaganda campaign aimed at persuading Libyans that the Tripoli-backed fighters who retook some of the country’s key oil ports recently were al-Qaeda militants.

Libya: Escalation feared as pro-Haftar parliament calls for elections

Libya’s eastern-based parliament has called for elections to be held early next year, after it backed out of a United Nations-brokered peace deal with rival authorities in the capital, Tripoli. The widening split has stoked concerns that violence could escalate in the fractured country.