Benghazi

Eastern Libyan authorities forced a civilian flight of the Libyan Airlines airliner to land in Benina Airport in Benghazi for security checks soon after it had taken off from Misurata city, which is controlled by their rivals in the…

The senior leader at Tariq bin Ziyad Brigade of Khalifa Haftar's forces, Asem Al-Ashibi, has threatened on Facebook a girl from Benghazi of killing one her brothers, asking her to come to his farmhouse in Sidi Faraj in Benghazi.The man…

Brega Petroleum Marketing Company (BPMC), a subsidiary of National Oil Corporation (NOC), condemns attempts at intimidation of its employees by an illegitimate parallel board."Staff in Benghazi were on Wednesday forced to sign…

Media outlets and social media activists in Benghazi have reported that the member of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) Siham Sergiwa has been released and is now in her house in Buatni in Benghazi. The sources said Sergiwa was…

The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has consulted the U.N. for the release of two Turkish citizens, Mehmet Demir and Volkan Altınok, who were allegedly detained last May just south of Tripoli by the Libyan National Army (LNA).…

The International Campaign to Boycott the UAE (ICBU) has accused the UAE of intervening in supporting internal fighting and supporting  Khalifa Haftar for greed in Libya’s oil wealth, where the Benghazi Oil Corporation (BPC) has revealed a…

The UN envoy in Libya Ghassan Salame condemned in the strongest possible terms the explosion that took place Saturday, 10 August, in front of a shopping mall in the eastern city of Benghazi, which resulted in a number of civilian…

A car bomb exploded in Hawari in Benghazi on Saturday afternoon targeting a convoy for the UN mission in Libya. Medical sources told local media that four UNSMIL staffers had been injured in the car bombing in Hawari.The sources…

The Interior Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) has started investigating the replacement of the surname "Haftar" by Khalifa Haftar's two sons; Saddam and Belgasim.According to a statement issued by the Interior…

The Delegation of the European Union in Libya on Thursday voiced its concern over the reported disappearance of a member of Libya's east-based parliament and called for her immediate release."The Delegation of the European Union in…

Six people have  been killed and over 30 others have been wounded as two car bombs exploded at a funeral for a former special forces commander in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. The people killed in Thursday's afternoon blast…

Salame visited Benghazi on Saturday.The UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame visited Benghazi municipality Saturday and met with the mayor Al-Saqr Boujwari.UNSMIL said on Twitter that Salame was visiting Benghazi to meet with a broad…

Several eastern Libyan oil ports including Es Sider and Ras Lanuf have closed due to bad weather, a port engineer said on Wednesday.A tanker had been trying to dock at the Es Sider terminal, but was unable to load, the engineer…

Authorities in eastern Libya said Thursday they have taken into custody suspects in the 2013 killing of a U.S. chemistry teacher in Benghazi, and that more suspects would be tried over the deadly attack a year earlier that killed the U.S.…

Three people working for Libya's state electricity company were killed in a landmine explosion on Saturday in the eastern city of Benghazi, according to a Libyan spokesman.   The blast took place during maintenance works for electricity…

Libya’s state oil company National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Wednesday it had postponed a conference in the eastern city of Benghazi for 15 days following an attack on its Tripoli headquarters last month.The three-day conference, to be…

Sources from Lamloud Land neighborhood in eastern Libyan city of Benghazi reported that the former mayor of the city Ahmed Areibi had been kidnapped from his house, along with his son. Areibi's sister said on her facebook page after…

A Libyan national, Ahmed Abu Khattala, convicted in the deadly 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans was sentenced to 22 years in prison Wednesday by a federal judge in Washington.…

Photos and videos circulated on social media showed a car bomb explosion that took place at Jamal Abdelnasser Street in Benghazi. Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi confirmed the explosion and said it has so far received over 6…