Hafed Al-Ghwell: How corruption fuels Libya’s unseen war
In Libya, the language of state-building is often just a dialect of theft. While political leaders publicly champion sovereignty and...
Libya civil war
Agreement reached between Libya government and militia force
An unlikely agreement has been reached between the UN-backed, Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) and the Special Deterrence Forces...
UN calls out 2 uninvestigated cases of missing Libyan MPs
To mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on August 30th, the United Nations Support Mission in...
Libya’s chaotic local elections and another ambitious UN plan
General elections in Libya were scheduled for December 2021, but on August 21, 2025, the UN Special Envoy for Libya,...
Libyan PM’s wide ranging interview, from elections to Israel
In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat published on August 19th, the head of Libya’s Government of National Unity discussed elections,...
Libya’s environmental crisis is due to neglect and and conflict
The Libyan Environment Minister for the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity, Ibrahim Al-Arabi, highlighted in an interview the “catastrophic” environmental...
Libya: polling staff trained up ahead of municipal elections
Libya’s High National Election Commission (HNEC) released a statement on August 2nd to say they had conducted training for polling...
Tunisia extends buffer zone on Libya border for another year
Tunisia’s military buffer zone along its border with Libya will remain in place for another year until August 2026, according...
Libyan rival governments ordered to stop all cooperation
The Prime Minister of the eastern government in Libya, Osama Hammad, has issued a statement instructing all the institutions of...
Libya: Egyptian FM calls for foreign troops to withdraw
The Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has demanded the urgent need for all foreign forces to withdraw from Libya and...
Libya: armed group clash kills notorious paramilitary leader
Early in the morning on July 28th, an altercation broke out between two families in Libya, killing the notorious leader...
Libyan governments go head to head over ICC jurisdiction
On July 27th, the eastern government of Libya announced that it is rejecting the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court...
Libya: violence prompts India to send troops to protect embassy
Indian authorities have announced that they are deploying 40 special forces commandos to protect their embassy in the Libyan capital...
UN calls on Libya to investigate MP’s kidnapping six years on
On July 17th, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) marked exactly six years since the disappearance of a...
Libya: war crime suspect and former militia official arrested
A Libyan man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity has been arrested in Germany on one of 11...
