A blast in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi killed four people, including an anti-corruption activist, and wounded at least 21 others, security and medical sources said.

A new report has revealed that Italian mafia gangs are providing ISIS fighters stationed in Libya with weapons in exchange for smuggled monumental antiquities. The mobs later put the invaluable antiquities back to the market, to sell it to art patrons and connoisseurs from Asia and Russia.

A report from the financial comptroller of Libya’s House of Representative has created a political scandal in the east of the country. It is alleged that corruption and financial mismanagement are rife amongst members of the house.

Dr Akram Gliwan, spokesman for a hospital in Misrata, told the AFP news agency that Oerlemans was shot in the chest by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group sniper. The photographer’s body had been transferred there from Sirte.

Some official Egyptian media had circulated news accusing the Qatari intelligence services of preparing a list of Libyan army officers to be assassinated by the hands of Libyan officials and politicians.

Libya Channel journalist and cameraman Saliem Alshebl, who was arrested on 29 July while covering a protest at Tripoli’s Martyrs’ Square, has been released on the orders of the attorney general. Alshebl was held by the Nawasi Brigade in a detention centre in the capital’s Ain Zara district for 18 …

A Canadian company manufactured dozens of armoured personnel carriers (APCs) that were shipped to Libya, despite United Nations sanctions on the North African country, local media has reported.

Even before he was captured and his finger infamously chopped off, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had a way of making headlines, charming his supporters, and enraging his enemies. Saif was the dapper multi-billion dollar poster boy for détente between Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and the West. Saif’s allies spearheaded the economic reforms …

Condemning continued violence against journalists in Libya, the international organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Government of National Accord (GNA) take a stand on the issue.

The head of international Libya conference for cyber terrorism, Abdel Qader Erhaim, said that the scientific committee began preliminary preparations to take in scientific participations from Arab countries, specialized industrial companies and international experts, referring that Algeria was the first to participate, followed by Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco.