Once, they were loyal to former leader Muammar Gaddafi. Now, members of a shadowy Islamic movement have allied themselves to rival sides of the war in Libya.
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European Council says Libya needs a national solution away from military operations
The European Council said it had adopted conclusions on Libya in a meeting on Monday. The council welcomed the outcome of the Conference for Libya hosted by Italy in Palermo on 12 and 13 November 2018, which followed the Paris Conference held on 29 May 2018.
Read More »ISIS kills 6 captives abducted from Libya’s Fuqaha town
The municipality of Jufra confirmed Sunday that ISIS militants had killed 6 people whom they kidnapped from Fuqaha town late last October.
Read More »7 killed and over 500 injured in gunfights in Benghazi in November
Gunfights and bladed weapons have claimed the lives of 7 people and the injury of over 500 others in Benghazi last November, according to official statistics.
Read More »Intercept: Documents prove vast network of US military bases in Africa
News website the “Intercept” said it had obtained documents which prove the possession of the US military a vast network of bases in Africa, including three sites in Libya that have not been previously disclosed.
Read More »Tuareg tribesmen denounce AFRICOM airstrike in southwestern Libya, confirm victims were civilians
Members of the Tuareg community gathered in Ubari town in southwestern Libya to condemn in the strongest terms the airstrike conducted by US Africa Command (AFRICOM) near Awaynat town last Thursday, which killed 11 people; AFRICOM claimed they were al-Qaeda militants.
Read More »55 tons of Libyan gold smuggled to UAE
Official records have revealed that 50 to 55 tons of Libyan gold – worth 3 billion dollars -have been smuggled to the UAE in recent years, according to the database of foreign commerce authority of the planning ministry of the Presidential Council’s government.
Read More »Tripoli: A city of corruption and chaos, The Guardian reports
The Guardian has reported that seven years after the fall of Gaddafi and his regime in Libya, the Libyan people in Tripoli are now intimidated by a rule of militias and gangsters who control all of state institutions as well as the UN-brokered government in the capital.
Read More »Sisi’s Ambitions in Libya
On October 23, Egyptian-mediated talks between the Libyan National Army (LNA)—the military faction led by Khalifa Haftar and which controls most of Eastern Libya—and the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli fell apart once again. These negotiations, stalled for six months, had resumed only one week earlier, …
Read More »U.S. confirms conducting airstrike in south Libya killing eleven AQIM terrorists
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported today that it had conducted what it referred to as “a precision airstrike” near Al Uwaynat, in southern Libya, yesterday.
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