News Libya: In Libya: Why the Benghazi Investigation Is Going Nowhere
Four months after a brutal assault on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi killed the ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, politicians in Washington are still railing over how diplomats ...
News Libya: Transfer: Al Ahli Tripoli officially announce the signing of Blati Touré
The Burkinabé international midfielder closes a brilliant chapter in his career.Transfer: Al Ahli Tripoli officially announce the signing of Blati TouréLibyan football giants Al Ahli Tripoli officia...
News Libya: Libyan Red Crescent retrieves bodies of migrants on beach near capital
Seven irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been found dead on a beach east of Libya's capital, Tripoli, a Libyan Red Crescent worker told AFP on Sunday.
News Libya: Benghazi Justice Moves Forward: Jeanine Pirro Pledges Continued Pursuit After Suspect Arrest
The long shadow of the 2012 Benghazi attack returned to the headlines this week with the arrest of Zubayr Al-Bakoush, ...
News Libya: Libya: Civic Space Crushed
(New York) – Libyan authorities’ accelerating targeting and harassment of activists and members of non-governmental organizations risks completely closing the space for free assembly and association ...
News Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former leader, killed in Libya
Gaddafi’s political team says masked men killed him at his home in Zintan in a ‘cowardly and treacherous assassination’.
News Libya: Libya’s Disaster of Justice: The Case of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Reveals a Country in Chaos
When NATO launched its bombing campaign in 2011 against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in Libya, the Western and Arab leaders who pushed for military intervention vowed to bring to justice the men who had ...
News Libya: 150 dead as 'catastrophic' storm floods hit east Libya
At least 150 people were killed when freak floods hit eastern Libya, officials said Monday, after storm Daniel swept the Mediterranean, lashing Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece.Images filmed by residents of the Libyan disaster area showed massive mudslides, collapsed buildings and entire neighbourhoods submerged under muddy water.Speaking on Libyan network Almasar, Oussama Hamad, prime minister of the east-based government, reported "more than 2,000 dead and thousands missing" in the city of Derna alone, but no medical sources or emergency services have confirmed such figures.
News Libya: Allied airstrikes on Libya killed 48, state television says
BENGHAZI, Libya -- The United States and European nations pounded Moammar Gadhafi's forces and air defenses with cruise missiles and airstrikes Saturday, launching the broadest international military ...
News Libya: Libya holds funeral for military officials killed in plane crash in Turkey
Libya has held a military funeral for its western military chief and four officers who died in a plane crash in Turkey.
News Libya: Protesters blame UNSMIL for Libya’s political deterioration
Protesters gathered on Monday near the headquarters of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in Janzour, expressing rejection of what they described as growing foreign interference in Libyan affairs. Demonstrators called on the international community to respect the will of Libyans and their right to self-determination without guardianship or external dictates.
News Libya: Libyan Political Parties Bloc: Any sustainable solution must reflect the will of Libyans
The Libyan Political Parties Bloc has voiced serious concern over the current political and institutional trajectory in Libya, accusing the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) of failing to help end the crisis and instead contributing to deeper political and institutional divisions that undermine national sovereignty.
News Libya: Congress Scrambles To React As Libya Events Unfold
Hearings Thursday were expected to be dominated by questions about President Obama's decision to begin military action in Libya without congressional approval and his apparent lack of a clear exit strategy. But a new flash point has emerged: whether the U.S. should arm Libyan rebels.
News Libya: Guterres hails UN roadmap, calls for an end to unilateral actions in Libya
The UN Secretary General António Guterres stressed, in his latest report submitted to the Security Council, that the UN mission has effectively begun implementing a political “roadmap” aimed at ending the transitional period in Libya. He explained that the roadmap is based on recommendations from an advisory committee of Libyan experts and on an inclusive national interest.
News Libya: Eastern Libya Force Strikes Misrata Air College-Source, Witness
BENGHAZI, Libya — Forces of the eastern Libyan National Army (LNA) loyal to Khalifa Haftar struck Misrata's air college early on Tuesday, a military source and resident said. Misrata is a coastal city ...
News Libya: Libya: LNA Accuses Emir of Qatar of Financing Tripoli Militias
Despite announcing what he described as “an airbridge from Turkey and Italy towards Misrata,” Mesmari stressed that the ... Meanwhile, the US Embassy in Libya called on all parties to intensify their ...
News Libya: Libya drone strike heightens fears of air war and risk of civilian deaths
Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters An air war in Libya is intensifying as rival forces in the divided ... Last week an airstrike by a drone destroyed a Ukrainian cargo plane at an airbase in Misrata, ...
News Libya: Libya: Mediterranean Migration - Europe Must Act Now to End Preventable Deaths in Libya and At Sea
Press Release - An estimated 150 people drowned whilst fleeing Libya. It brings this year's toll in the Central Mediterranean Sea to at least 576 people. This entirely avoidable loss of life highlights the desperate lack of search and rescue capacity, and the terrible plight of those fleeing Libya.
