Haftar

The Interior Minister for Libya’s UN-backed government accused Russia of fueling a months-long war to extend its influence over the strategic oil producer, and called on the U.S. to step up efforts to resolve the conflict.Fathi…

A report by the UN panel of experts has disclosed violations of Security Council arms embargo on Libya by the UAE, Jordan, Sudan and Turkey which provided military support to warring parties across the country, according to Aljazeera TV…

A senior Foreign Ministry official has denied Russia’s military presence in Libya following a New York Times report that about 200 Russian mercenaries have arrived in the oil-rich North African country in the past month and a half.The…

The Libyan Islamic Sharia Research and Studies Center of the Fatwa House has issued a call for boycotting the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The decision that was made public on Thursday said the money that is helping kill Muslims and fund…

The Head of the Libyan High Council of State (HCS) Khalid Al-Mishri met Wednesday with the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sirraj I'm Tripoli and discussed developments of the ongoing fighting, displaced families' conditions and…

Three people were killed Tuesday in Libya in an airstrike carried out by forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, according to the Government of National Accord (GNA).Health Ministry spokesman Fawzi Awnis said on the Facebook page of…

Libya’s High Council of State has called on the country's UN-recognized Government of National Accord to boycott and sue countries, especially the UAE, that support a military offensive by eastern Libyan forces of Khalifa Haftar against the…

Flights heading to the Libyan airport of Misurata were forced to divert on Sunday after air strikes carried out by warplanes loyal t  Khalifa Haftar, targeted Tripoli's only functioning airport Mitiga and Misurata Airport as well. The…

Despite the latest warning by the UN envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame, Interior and Transportation Ministers upon reopening Mitiga Airport, Khalifa Haftar's forces, using foreign aircraft, carried out four airstrikes on Mitiga Airport on…

Malta has seized a massive shipment of an unofficial Libyan currency believed to have been destined for Khalifa Haftar who is leading an offensive south of Tripoli.Sources involved in the country’s national security sector confirmed to…

The ex-Head of High Council of State Abdelrahman Al-Sweihli met Wednesday with the deputy ambassador of the United Kingdom in Libya.Al-Sweihli said on Twitter that he had assured the British diplomat that defeating the attacking forces…

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…

A parallel central bank in eastern Libya stepped up deliveries of new banknotes from Russia this year, before and after eastern-based Khalifa Haftar launched a military offensive to capture Tripoli, Russian customs data show.The data…

The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday that the public relations firm that helped launch President Trump’s election campaign is lining up a fact-finding tour of Libya as part of a $1.5-million contract to lobby on behalf of the…

UNICEF has condemned the new attack and previous attacks on civilians and especially children in the ongoing fighting in Tripoli, Libya's capital. UNICEF said in a statement on Tuesday that in the past two weeks, violence has taken a…

Three children were killed and the rest of family members were injured in shelling on a residential building in Salah Al-Deen in Tripoli by Khalifa Haftar's forces. The three bodies arrived in a Tripoli hospital and the injured family…

A Libyan military prosecutor on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Khalifa Haftar and three other retired commanders.According to a statement by the military chief prosecutor’s office, Haftar and three retired commanders were accused of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed Libya, Syria, and Ukraine during a phone call, the Interfax news agency quoted the Kremlin as saying on Saturday.Putin and Merkel agreed to continue…

Human Rights Watch said Saturday that the airstrike by the "Libyan National Army (LNA)", on a home in a residential area of Tripoli on October 14, 2019 that killed three girls and wounded their mother and another sister, is an…

UNSMIL reiterated that relevant authorities in eastern Libya have the legal responsibility to establish the fate and whereabouts of the member of the House of Representatives (HoR) Siham Sergewa, saying it remains in close contact with the…