Libyan authorities loyal to rogue general Khalifa Haftar arrested dozens of Derna residents this week following the escape of five prisoners from the infamous Ghirnata prison on Libya’s eastern coast, according to local media outlets.

A plane belonging to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar landed briefly in Tel Aviv on Thursday, according to an Israeli news report.

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed website has reported Egyptian sources close to the committee concerned with the Libyan file, without naming them, as saying that a meeting for a number of leaders of Libyan military factions and leaders of tribes from east Libya was held in Cairo in the presence of Khalifa Haftar’s …

Libya’s Chief of General Staff Muhammad Al-Haddad met on Saturday with acting general commander of the eastern-based Libyan National Army, Abdel Razek Al-Nadori, in the northern coastal city of Sirte and discussed efforts to unify the country’s military.

A group of Libyan parliamentarians paid an official visit to Turkey Dec. 15, meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the parliament speaker. The seven-member group, headed by Libya’s deputy parliament Speaker Fawzi al-Nuwairi, arrived in Ankara for the two-day visit invited by the Turkish parliament’s Libyan-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group. …

Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said that his country is working with the legitimate government in Libya and wants a comprehensive solution for the Libyan crisis.

Libyan authorities yesterday reopened the Academy of Maritime Studies, ten years after closing, Anadolu reported.

The Presidential Council (PC) has decided to postpone the appointment of a new commander for the Tripoli Military District.

Presidential candidates, Fathi Bashagha who was an Interior Minister of the previous government in Libya, and Ahmed Maiteeq who was a member of the previous Presidential Council – both from Misurata – traveled to Benghazi in eastern Libya and held a meeting with Khalifa Haftar, a current presidential candidate and …

A delegation of the House of Representatives (HoR) on Saturday met with the former Chief of Staff of the Turkish Naval Forces -the architect of the Libyan-Turkish maritime agreement- Admiral Cihat Yayci at the Turkish Center for Global Naval Strategies in Istanbul.