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Fresh fighting erupted in the Libyan capital on Wednesday after the collapse of a truce, a witness and military source said, after the UN called for calm.A military officer with forces loyal to the UN-backed Government of National…

Libyan Interior Minister Abdulsalam Ashour said Monday that a cease-fire agreement has been reached in the capital Tripoli, following deadly clashes between government forces and militias.Ashour told a local TV channel that the…

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said it was following the clashes in and around Tripoli with grave concern and calls on all parties to immediately cease all military action.UNSMIL added in a statement on Monday…

The Presidential Council (PC) of the Government of National Accord (GNA) responded to the clashes of its own armed groups in southern Tripoli by condemning the eruption of violence. The PC warned in a statement Monday that "these gangs…

Clashes in southern Tripoli areas like Khalit Al-Furjan, Salahuddin, Wadi Al-Rabee and Qasar Benghashir have started between brigades securing those areas and others under the seventh brigade that is based in Tarhouna and moved in…

An unknown armed group kidnapped Saturday Abbas al-Qadi, the head of the General Authority of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, in Tripoli.   Al-Qadi was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Tripoli airport and taken to undisclosed location. No…

Social media pages and local Libyan social media activists have both similarly reported that the Halbous Brigade, Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade and Ghaniwa Brigade in Tripoli, which are under the Presidential Council control, have…

A fighting in Ras Hassan street in Tripoli, Libya's capital, left two men killed after Iftar on Thursday. The spokesman for the Special Deterrence Force Ahmed Salim told local news that their security personnel interfered in the…

The Tripoli-based Special Deterrence Force (SDF) said it had arrested a sleeper cell that was plotting to carry out military actions in the Libyan capital in coordination sleeper cells from the Popular Front for Liberation of Libya,…

The Chairman of the Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC) Emad Al-Sayeh has assured all Libyans that the data of the voters is safe and secure.Al-Sayeh said in a joint presser with the Government of National Accord's…

The death toll of the attack on the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) in Tripoli's Ghout Al-Shaal has reached 16 and injuries reached 19, according to the field hospital official Mohammed Damja, who talked to local media.The…

Fierce clashes erupted Monday dawn in downtown Tripoli, Libya’s capital, between two armed groups under the umbrella of the Presidential Council’s Interior Ministry.The brigade of Al-Nawasi and The Abu Salim Central Security Brigade…

The military prosecutor of Libya's UN-backed unity government, Maj. Masoud Erhouma, has reportedly fled his captors after more than one month in captivity, according to local media. Local media quoted Erhouma’s family as saying that the…

Rockets hit Libya’s main airport and damaged a plane as it was waiting to take off early on Thursday, a security force said, underscoring fragile security.One rocket hit an Airbus 320 of state-run Libyan Airlines, and others struck…

First International Anti-Terrorism Conference was held Sunday in the Libyan capital Tripoli, with a number of foreign ambassadors and military attaches present.The conference was organized by the UN-backed government's counter-terrorism…

 The office for security coordination in Tripoli, Libya, Friday said on its Facebook page that the city's mayor, Abdelraouf Bait Al-Mal, ''has been released''. The office also stressed that the mayor had…

The mayor of Tripoli central municipality was kidnapped on Wednesday and had been led to an unknown place, according to sources from the municipality.Meanwhile, the Tripoli municipality suspended work on Thursday in protest of the…

The eight Greek crewmen of a Greek-owned tanker who were arrested on Wednesday night off Libya on suspicion of fuel smuggling were reportedly transferred to a naval base in Tripoli on Friday.The tanker, which was…

Flights of the state-owned Libyan Airlines have been resumed in Mitiga Airport in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Saturday morning as the first flights flew to Tunisia’s Carthage Airport.According to local media citing the airliner,…