By Justin Salhani
Attacks on Sufi Islamic sites in Libya have left the religious group feeling targeted, as instability in parts of the fragile nation continues following the 2011 revolution that deposed Gadhafi. Read More
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By Sudarsan Raghavan
For nearly two years, this ancient, beachfront city, famed for its Roman ruins, was one of North Africa’s largest smuggling hubs, a gateway for tens of thousands of migrants seeking better futures in Europe. Read More
By Mathieu Galtier
Mahmoud Emsameen eases off the gas as he rolls toward the rubble and wrecked vehicles that sit near what had been a checkpoint on the road into this war-ravaged city’s downtown manned by Islamic State militants. Read More
By Issandr El Amrani
Khalifa Haftar, who rules eastern Libya, has dismissed the two-year-old, UN-backed accord about how the country should be run. Read More
The Director of Grassroots Political Consulting LLC, Daniel Faraci, said that the commander of the Dignity Operation, General Khalifa Haftar, had contracted with him to promote him and his family in the United States. Read More
The officials from Haftir’s Media Office (HMO) accuses “Benghazi Defence Brigades” to be responsible for the explosion at the pipeline near Maradah operated by al-Waha Oil Company. Read More
By Mustafa Fetouri
According to the Libyan Political Agreement signed in Morocco on Dec. 17, 2015, Libya should have held its referendum on its new constitution as well as legislative and presidential elections by now. Read More
By Khaled Mahmoud
The upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections will be held before September 30, 2018 according to the UN proposed road map, Head of Libya’s Election Commission Imad al-Sayeh confirmed on Sunday. Read More
By Ahmed Elumami
Libyan families displaced from a town ransacked after the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 will be allowed to return home in February, the U.N.-backed government said on Tuesday after more than a year of negotiations. Read More
By Jamal Jawhar
As Libya marked on Sunday its 66th Independence Day, its officials lamented that their country is still the focus of the old colonialists, represented by France, Italy and Britain. Read More
Women and men activists from Libyan civil society organizations met in Tunis from 12 to 15 December to continuing the process of preparing a campaign aimed at fostering the culture of peace, reconciliation and peaceful co-existence in Libya. Read More
Here are the main highlights of the Libya Observer’s interview with the Libyan Navy spokesperson Brigadier Ayoub Qasim: Read More
By Damir Kaletovic
Just as oil watchers wonder whether Libya’s ambitious oil production targets could undermine the OPEC deal, Libya’s General Haftar—the man largely responsible for freeing up Libyan oil production after two years—is hinting that he may run for elections and upset the fragile political balance. Read More
By Mat Nashed
Rival forces in Libya are fighting an Islamic State insurgency after the group suffered major blows across the country. Read More
By David Child
Libyan general Khalifa Haftar has said the mandate for a UN-backed government in Tripoli has expired, plunging the North African country deeper into political turmoil. Read More
By Ethan Chorin
2018 may be the year the international community shelves its efforts to catalyze a stable government in Libya in favor of containment, where the main targets are illegal migration, and the growth of violent extremism. Read More
The House of Representatives (HoR) has elected Mohamed Al-Shukri as the new governor of the Central Bank of Libya to replace Saddek Elkabir. Shukri, from Khoms, received 54 votes. Beida-based acting CBL governor Ali Hebri was humiliated taking only three of the 107 votes. Read More
By Hani Hazaimeh
The UN-backed political agreement on Libya signed two years ago is still active and Libyans should work together to implement it, a leading Libyan politician told Arab News on Sunday. Read More
Two years after a deal to form a unity government aimed at ending deep divisions between Libya’s opposing sides, the country remains mired in crisis with no solution in sight. Read More
By Emily Estelle
Escalating national and municipal power struggles in Libya are undermining the UN peace process and sidelining moderate factions, setting the country on a path toward renewed civil war. Read More
Britain plans to spend £180 million in the coming five years in Africa, hoping to persuade migrants to remain at home through socio-economic projects. Read More
By Gordon Kristopher
Libya’s crude oil production hit 1,005,000 bpd in July 2017—the highest level in four years. Read More
Hafter, again, plays the game of bluffing. He declared the LPA over and the Presidency Council no longer legitimate. Read More
By Maxim A. Suchkov
Mohammed Siyala, the foreign minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), came to Moscow this week for talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Read More
by Youssef Cherif
At the turn of the 20th century, three ageing intellectuals with extensive knowledge of the Middle East looked back at the previous hundred years and published their thoughts in a book entitled Un Siecle Pour Rien (A Wasted Century). Read More
New satellite imagery from Terra Server dated September 24 and November 10 this year has shown accelerating construction on Al-Khadim airbase in Al-Marj, eastern Libya, War is Boring reported on Friday. Read More
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By Safa Alharathy
Conflicting reports have emerged about the fate of large sums of money that have been withdrawn from the vaults of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) branch in Benghazi over the past few days. Read More
By Tobias Borck
Libya is back in the international spotlight after reports emerged of African migrants being sold to the highest bidder. However, this is just one aspect of the North African state’s seven-year crisis. Read More
Summary: KSA and UAE money for Sahel force with troops from five sub-Saharan states backed by the UN with French leadership to fight jihadists in the Sahara. Read More
By Teri Schultz
Can international negotiators convince Libyan Army General Khalifa Hifter his future will be better with them than without them? What happens on Sunday will be key. Teri Schultz reports from Brussels. Read More
By Bernd Riegert
The issue of migration is deepening the rift between east and west in the EU. But for a long time now, more fundamental issues such as legal integrity and solidarity have been at stake, says DW’s Bernd Riegert. Read More
By Kang Hyun-kyung
The prolonged conflict in Libya, which has continued after a series of popular uprisings in the Middle East spread to the North African country in 2011, has torn Hana Al-Gallal’s life apart. Read More
By Tim Eaton
Protracted negotiations over the formation of an interim government risk derailing the UN action plan. Read More
By Jamal Jawhar
United Nations special envoy Ghassan Salamé said that Libya is expected to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in 2018. The announcement towed along strong opposition by a number of political parties in the African state. Read More
Reaffirming its commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of Libya, the Security Council today reiterated that the Libyan Political Agreement of 17 December 2015 remained the only viable framework to end the Libyan political crisis and that its implementation remained key to holding elections and finalizing the political transition. Read More
“In Libya, companies always look for male engineers. In the school and in college, men have more opportunities to develop their interest in technology, so companies believe they will be more capable than us,” says Hala Haithm, a university student from Benghazi. Read More