Libyan electoral office attacked as local elections grow closer
On the morning of August 12th, an armed assault was carried out on an electoral administration office in the Libyan...
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Libya: UN-backed state council sees election of new chairman
The High Council of State (HCS) of Libya voted in an UN-endorsed election for its new leadership with Mohammed Takala...
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: Defense Ministry to carry out airstrikes, urges residents away
The government in Tripoli’s Ministry of Defense announced on July 30th that they intend to target areas with airstrikes that...
Revealed: Libya’s new “love affair” with Turkey
As Libya accelerates the opening of its markets to the outside world, one country is going further than all others...
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...
Where next for EU – Libya relations?
Following the acrimonious exit of an EU delegation from Benghazi airport on July 8th, the future of cross-Mediterranean relations has...
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 urges withdrawal of armed forces from Libyan Capital
Despite the recent resignation of its Libya envoy, Abdoulaye Bathily, who conceded that “there is no room for a solution”...
Libya asks for more international help to carry out elections
On July 21st Emad Al-Sayeh, head of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) in Libya, met with Stephanie Koury, Deputy...
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...
UK convoy attacked in Tripoli, threatening diplomacy with Libya
A UK diplomatic convoy was attacked in the capital city of Tripoli in Libya on June 26th, an attack which...
Libya: Tripoli mayors reject armed militias and call for unity
The mayors and local representatives of municipalities in Greater Tripoli have recorded a statement in which they firmly reject the...
Libya refuses to extradite senior militia commander to the ICC
The western Libyan government based in Tripoli has announced on July 13th that it is rejecting the International Criminal Court’s...
EU delegation refused entry into eastern Libya by government
An EU migration delegation has been refused entry by the eastern government of Libya, after the delegation visited the rival...
