A spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the secretary is “deeply shocked by the discovery of multiple mass graves in recent days, the majority of them in Tarhouna” in Libya. Tarhouna was a stronghold of renegade General Khalifa Haftar and his forces, but it recently…
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Tags : Libya, mass graves,
For over a year the un-backed Government of National Accord (gna) in Libya had been under siege by the forces of Khalifa Haftar, a renegade general. Then, all of sudden, it wasn’t. On June 3rd militias aligned with the gna pushed General Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (lna) out of…
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Tags : Libya, GNA, Haftar, Benghazi,
Directly engaging all parties is essential if Washington hopes to advance a national dialogue and prevent a Turkish-Russian accommodation that establishes their presence in Libya indefinitely. On June 8, President Trump held a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss …
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Tags : Libya, USA, dialogue,
The civil war in Libya is entering a potentially decisive new phase. A 14-month offensive led by renegade warlord Khalifa Hifter against the U.N.-recognized government in Tripoli, the Libyan capital in the country’s west, is in full-fledged retreat. Backed by Turkish firepower, the Tripoli-based…
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Tags : Libya, partition, Haftar,
Regional files are witnessing the crossing of wires in terms of variables, actors and the nature of the conflict. The Syrian and Libyan realities bore several similarities since the start of the conflict despite subsequent significant variables and paradoxes. And now the two files are again…
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Tags : Libya, Syria,
Having an avid interest in anthropology, ancient history, cultures and all the trappings thereof, I have for many years now, been wanting to tell this story, a story about the deliberate destruction of one of Africa’s most flourishing economies, being Libya. Being born in South Africa, where…
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Tags : Libya, Libya under Gaddafi,
Libyan forces will retake territory from Kremlin-backed eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar and prevent Russia from establishing a base before accepting negotiations, Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha told Bloomberg on Sunday, a day after Haftar declared a cease-fire. Upon retaking…
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Tags : Libya, Russia, Haftar,
Egypt’s president Saturday announced a unilateral initiative to end the civil war in neighbouring Libya, a plan accepted by the commander of the eastern forces that have suffered heavy losses in recent weeks. President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told a news conference in Cairo that his initiative…
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WASHINGTON – Turkey and Libya further strengthened their bilateral ties on Thursday in a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Tripoli-based Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj. During a press conference with al-Sarraj in Ankara, Erdogan said Turkey…
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PARIS — The collapse of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar’s offensive against the capital Tripoli thanks to Turkish military intervention has exposed Europe’s inability to shape the conflict at its borders and left France trying to hedge its bets. On Friday, Haftar suffered his most…
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