The National Oil Corporation’s (NOC) Brega Marketing/ Fuel and Gas Crisis Committee announced that the 6th squadron of the Presidential Council-aligned Air Force revealed on Monday that it is supporting the anti-fuel smuggling initiative launched by the National Oil Corporation.

The military prosecutor of Libya’s UN-backed unity government, Maj. Masoud Erhouma has reportedly fled his captors after more than one month in captivity, according to local media.

Lawyers in the southern Sabha city demanded Monday the Public Prosecutor in Tripoli to immediately investigate the death of their colleague counsel Mokhtar Bin Rajab in his Tripoli prison after his arrest by police upon orders from the Southern Tripoli Prosecution in the past few days.

Hundreds of Libyans demonstrated on Sunday and demanded executing the members of an armed group who are involved in murdering three siblings after kidnapping them in December 2015 while on their way to school in Sorman, west of Libya.

The head of Tripoli Central Municipality Council, Abdulrauf  Beitelmal was released late last night after being held in forced captivity for about 21 hours. No official news of the identity of his kidnappers or their motives for his kidnapping have been revealed yet. Sources have informed Libya Herald that he …

Libya’s head of investigations in the Attorney General’s office has said fuel smuggling is being carried out by a network of organised crime linking Europe to Libya.

A group of unknown armed militants kidnapped Libya’s military prosecutor, Masoud Erhouma, on Thursday, the head of the Interrogations Office under the Libyan attorney general said.

The European Union wants to rapidly expand training of the Libyan coastguard to stem migrant flows to Italy and reduce deaths at sea, an EU naval mission said on Thursday, signalling a renewed push to support a force struggling to patrol its own coasts.

Libya has issued arrest warrants for more than 200 Libyans and foreigners suspected of involvement in a smuggling network for Europe-bound migrants, the attorney general’s office said on Thursday.

Libya’s top prosecutor says criminal groups are smuggling Libyan fuel on board fishing vessels to Europe.