Libya’s UN-recognised government on Sunday condemned overnight air raids against a recently recaptured airbase in the west of the country saying the attack was carried out by a “foreign air force”.
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Sudan’s Al-Burhan supplied Haftar with weapons as Sudanese military leaders vie for UAE money
Chairman of the Sovereignty Council of Sudan is supplying Libya’s warlord Khalifa Haftar with weapons and ammunition, a Sudanese source has told The Libya Observer.
Read More »Two demining personnel killed in mine explosion in south Tripoli
Two members of the demining teams have been killed in a mine explosion in Ain Zara in south Tripoli as they were removing mines planted by Khalifa Haftar’s forces in residential areas.
Read More »Washington: ‘Link between Haftar’s forces and Wagner group undermines Libya sovereignty’
The US State Department expressed on Thursday its alarm at the link between the forces of Major General Khalifa Haftar and the Russian Wagner group, stressing that this contradicts US and Libyan interests and undermines Libya’s sovereignty.
Read More »Turkish minister in Libya for defence cooperation talks
Turkey‘s defence minister and military chief visited war-torn Libya‘s capital on Friday, the country’s UN-recognised government said, the second visit in weeks by a minister from its main international backer.
Read More »Libyan government finds more mass graves in former Haftar stronghold
Libyan authorities on Thursday extracted six more bodies from a mass grave in the city of Tarhouna, south-east of Tripoli, raising the total number of corpses found in mass graves south of Tripoli to 219.
Read More »130 casualties of IEDs, landmines and ERWs in southern Tripoli: UNSMIL
UNSMIL reported yesterday that various UN agencies have documented 130 casualties (75 civilian and 55 clearance operators) in the past five weeks.
Read More »US pushes Hifter’s Libyan militias to disband
US officials pushed strongman Khalifa Hifter’s Libyan National Army (LNA) to demobilize in a virtual meeting on Wednesday.
Read More »Russia increases flights to eastern Libya
Itamilradar, a website that tracks military flights, said it had tracked several flights operated by Russian Air Force aircraft to eastern Libya.
Read More »Libyan General Staff proposes formation of National Guard to contain armed factions
The Libyan General Staff proposed to the Head of Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, as the Chief Commander of the Army, the formation of National Guard to contain the backup forces and to ensure Libya remains a civilian state.
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