Turkey’s defence minister said that any attack by eastern Libyan renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar on its personnel in the North African country would be met with force. “A war criminal, murderer Haftar and his supporters must know that they will be seen as a legitimate…
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Fezzan is a highly strategic region in Libya because of its petroleum resources. Deeply divided, abandoned by the Government of National Accord in Tripoli, the Tubus and the Tuaregs who live there have formed an alliance to resist the offensives of Marshall Haftar. But for these peoples…
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Germany was a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council from 1 January 2019 till 31 December 2020. This was Germany’s sixth term on the Council, assuming particular responsibility for peace and security around the world and striving to strengthen the international…
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Tags : Libya, UN Security Council,
Located just a two-hour flight or a short boat trip away from its southern shores, Libya is a country in Europe’s immediate neighbourhood. Political shifts and conflicts in this oil-rich Northern African nation have immediate and extensive consequences for European nations. As a result…
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Tags : Libya, Russia, European Union, EU,
At least four people have been killed and 20 others wounded as a result of the clashes that broke out in Tobruk city east of Libya on Thursday. Sources from the city said that confrontations broke out between two families from different tribes, on the backdrop of a decision to assign a member from one of the mentioned tribes to the position of director of the social security fund as a substitute for the current official who descends from the other tribe.
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Two days before the eruption of the popular protests in Libya in February 2011, late ruler Moammar al-Gaddafi was very confident that he and his regime would withstand the pressure. Along with his officials and security and intelligences agencies, he believed that nothing would happen…
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Tags : Libya, arab spring, Moammar Al-Gaddafi,
How should the new administration with Joe Biden think about Libya? That country has tried for a decade to create some semblance of stability in the aftermath of the fall of Muammar Gaddafi almost a decade ago. There has been some positive movement by the various parties in Libya as of late. In Geneva this fall, after more than a year of talks, the two main groups in the country reached a ceasefire that, if honored, may be the first step toward peace. There remains a difficult road ahead since the text of the ceasefire accord leaves space for many divergent meanings.
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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte discussed developments in Libya related to inter-Libyan political dialogue with warlord Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi on Thursday. According to Haftar’s media office, he hailed “the role of the Italian government in supporting solutions to the Libyan …
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ROME: Eighteen fishermen from Mazara del Vallo in Sicily have been released after more than 100 days in captivity in Libya, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio announced on Thursday. The breakthrough came on Thursday after Conte and Di Maio flew to Benghazi, the stronghold of Libyan General Khalifa El-Haftar, whose forces seized the crew members about 80 miles off the Libyan coast on September 1, claiming their two boats had entered Libya’s protected fishing area.
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The crews of two Italian fishing boats based in the Sicilian town of Mazara del Vallo who were taken captive early in September and had been held in Libya since have been released, Premier Giuseppe Conte and Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Thursday. The breakthrough …
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