Eastern forces loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar have launched a military operation in southern Libya to secure oil and gas facilities and fight extremists, a spokesman said on Tuesday, a move that may alarm the authorities in Tripoli in the west, Reuters reports.
2018 has been another rough year for Libya, which has seen no peace since its government was destroyed by NATO bombardment in 2011.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging the Libyan government to bring all prisons under its control and free from the grip of militias, some of whom run migrant-smuggling networks.
The Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fathi Bashagha has told BBC Arabic that there are armed groups and forces, which are registered under the ministry’s command, who are implementing the agendas of outsiders and thus are dominating the decision making in political and economic fields in …
Interior Minister of the Presidential Council (PC) Fathi Pashaga said Tuesday that the security vacuum in the capital is due to the lack of security arrangements and shortcomings, emphasising the need to form committees, in order to address the situation.
A militia group in Benghazi stormed Tuesday the city’s Jala Hospital for Accidents and caused horror by gunfire inside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the management of the hospital reported.
Clashes with heavy and medium weapons broke out Monday evening between the pro-Hafter battalion of Tariq Ibn Ziad and forces affiliated with the former commander of the Petroleum Facilities Guard Ibrahim Jadhran south of the city of Bani Walid.
The internationally recognized government of Libya admitted its security short fallings today following the suicide terror attack on its Tripoli Foreign Ministry headquarters and called for the partial lifting of the UN Libya arms embargo.
The United Nations Special Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) warned against the possible escalation of manoeuvres into clashes as the Khalifa Hafter-controlled Libyan National Army (LNA) made a pre-emptive move on what the LNA described as Jadran-Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) forces.
The Central Military Zone force has called all conflicting forces to leave the administrative borders of the region immediately, giving the so-called Dignity Operation forces 24 hours to comply with the order.
