Libya’s southern area of Fezzan is suffering from an influx of foreign fighters that are gradually taking over the country’s tribes. 

Libyan officer in charge of Ras Ajdir border crossing with Tunisia, Najmi Muammar, confirmed that the border has been shut to traffic by the Libyan side since Tuesday evening. In a press statement, Muammar explained that the decision was taken due to increasing cases of attacks on Libyan travellers by …

The Presidential Council’s Interior Ministry said that the bomb squad of the National Safety Department had eliminated unexploded artillery shells from a citizen’s house in the Airport Road district in Tripoli. The squad moved to the site after receiving a report of the existence of objects suspected of being explosives. …

Saiqa Force has taken control of Benghazi’s port and stationed in several points in its vicinity, according to sources from the city. The sources revealed that the forces securing the port withdrew from their posts after receiving information of an impending attack on the port, which made it easy for …

CAIRO – 11 July 2018: Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan National Army commander, ordered the resume of exporting oil after the liberation of the oil ports from terrorist militias, according to media reports. Haftar handed back the control of the oil ports to Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tripoli, ending …

Without a pre-defined security plan, no political authority is likely to control the countries living in fragmented security and political orders in the MENA region, says the Arab Reform Initiative in a new book, urging for the adoption of cooperative security as a way out of the conflicts of the …

Senior lawmakers on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s declaration that the United States has “no role” in Libya, citing the threat of regional instability to U.S. national security interests. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and ranking Democrat Ben Cardin (D., Md.) said Libya’s ongoing battle over power …

A week after some of his offices in the capital were seized by Haitham Tajouri’s Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade militia,  intelligence chief  Mohamed Muftah Nuh has said he had foiled a plot to assassinate Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj.

The Civil Registry Authority (CRA) confirmed yesterday that it had been forcibly taken over by ‘’ideologically extremist groups’’ who took control of its database of Libyan citizens which would have ‘’enabled them to control the affairs of Libyans and the manipulation of their identities for their own interests’’.

Islamic State militants in Libya attempted to seize fresh territory south of Tripoli on Wednesday, kidnapping policemen at a new checkpoint on a major road and attacking forces loyal to the internationally-recognized government.