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Seven ministries in Tripoli including the foreign affairs ministry were handed over to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) on Monday and Mohammed al-Ammari, a member of the Presidential Council formed under the Libya Political Agreement (LPA), said the Read more
Late Tuesday, the Tripoli-based justice ministry posted a statement citing that the National Salvation Government (NSG) and its related institutions were stopping work in “the interests of the nation” and to avoid bloodshed, division and fragmentation. Special envoy Kobler said Read more
Moroccan Interior Ministry has announced the netting in Casablanca and Had Soualem of 2 more members of the ISIS Libyan branch who are allegedly connected to the 10-men cell arrested in Morocco on March 24. The two men were according Read more
The arrival of the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli on Wednesday increased the number of governments claiming legitimacy and authority in Libya to three. On Friday prime minister-designate Fayez Serraj made his first public appearance in Tripoli at Read more
The Prime Minister-designate of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez Serraj together with six deputies arrived in Tripoli on Wednesday onboard a ship coming from Tunisia. Western countries quickly declared their support to this government and UN special Read more
President Sisi in an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper said countries considering military intervention in Libya should rather give the needed support to the Libya National Army headed by General Khalifa Haftar because “it can do the job much Read more
Prime Minister Khalifa Ghwell of the Tripoli-based government warned the Tunisia-based Government of National Accord (GNA) formed under the U.N-backed Libya Political Agreement not to attempt entering Tripoli as a “government” because they would be arrested. He said they could Read more
The annual report of the United Nations sanctions monitors on Libya to the Security Council warned that “the rise of ISIL in Libya is likely to increase the level of international and regional interference, which could provoke further polarization, if Read more
UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, told the Security Council that the humanitarian situation has “deteriorated further” and the political stalemate is enabling terrorists and criminals to have “deep Read more
Libya’s adjacent neighboring country lying over the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea is willingly to take a primary role in the activities of foreign troops that would fight the Islamic State in the war torn country according to US Read more