Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha ordered to investigate and arrest 17 suspects accused of committing murder in the capital Tripoli, including the sons of the Kani family, who are fighting alongside Haftar, in his war on Tripoli.

BBC has aired an investigation finding evidence of alleged war crimes in Libya being widely shared on Facebook and YouTube.

At least four people were killed when air raids struck Tripoli on Sunday night, Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) said on Monday, blaming the attacks on rival Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).

The United Nations envoy for Libya has warned countries tempted to continue backing eastern commander Khalifa Haftar that he is no democrat and his political agenda was not supported by most Libyans.

An armed group attacked Libya’s largest oilfield on Monday, but was repelled after clashes with its protection force, while fighting escalated in eastern commander Khalifa Haftar’s effort to capture the capital Tripoli, Reuters reports.

With the breakout of the Arab Spring more than eight years ago, pro-democracy activists in the Arab world and elsewhere were hopeful that the tide of democratic change might have finally reached its shores. Many who had criticised the likes of American scholar Samuel Huntington, who saw democracy as an …

Air raids by the self-styled Libyan National Army against the capital on Saturday night killed four people and wounded 20 others, Libya’s internationally recognised unity government said.

On 4 April, General Khalifa Haftar, whose forces control Eastern Libya, announced the first phase of an offensive intended to gain control of forces loyal to Tripoli, prompting the mobilisation of the defense. In response, armed forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) launched a military op …

Coast Guard Commander, Rida Issa, said that a patrol of Zawiya Coast Guard has intercepted two rubber boats belonging to warlord Khalifa Haftar’s forces, saying that any attempted sea attack on the western region will be a suicide.

Scores of vulnerable refugees and migrants have reportedly been freed from detention centres only to be forced to fight for militias linked to the UN-recognised Libyan government on the frontlines of its offensive against renegade General Khalifa Haftar.