August 2020 - The CEO of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), Weam Al-Abdali, said Tuesday that three new electrical units will be put into service to support the public grid. According to Al-Abdali, the units will be tied with the Al-Khums station, the...

August 2020 The diplomatic track ongoing between Turkey, Malta and Libya’s Tripoli government has sparked questions whether Valletta’s diplomatic support can serve as a much needed jumping point for Ankara to break the Libya stalemate, but the European country’s only...

August 2020 - Libya has suffered over $8 billion in losses as a result of the oil blockade and the closure of oil wells by putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s militias in the past 200 days, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced Monday. In a statement, the NOC said...

August 2020 - For too long, Libya has been synonymous with conflict. Occupying a strategic location between Africa and Europe with large oil reserves, my nation has long been a battleground. Colonial occupation, world wars, coups, and revolutions litter the pages of...

August 2020 - Disputes between factions of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), chaired by Fayez al-Sarraj, have increased over calls for rallies against the cabinet in the capital Tripoli.   Sarraj’s deputy, Ahmed Maiteeq, has asked the military...

August 2020 - Turkey’s president called a maritime deal between Greece and Egypt “worthless” Friday and said his country would resume its aggressive oil and gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean regardless of what its neighbours think. “We have started drilling...

August 2020 - The Libyan Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) Fathi Bashagha and the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir, have signed an agreement to cooperate in efforts to curb operations of corruption, money...

August 2020 - Libya's port blockade is set to keep the North African country's oil off the market until at least the fourth quarter of 2020, which, as devastating as it will be for Libyan oil revenues, could help reduce the expected global production glut by 65...

August 2020 Turkey was hoping that Russia’s presence in Libya was merely tactical and aimed at obtaining greater concessions in Syria. MOSCOW – Russia is moving to expand its sphere of influence in Africa through new military bases and increasing troop numbers, in a...

August 2020 - The US’ national security advisor Robert O’Brien went on to say Sirte and al-Jufra should be demilitarised. “We strongly oppose foreign military involvement, including the use of mercenaries and private military contractors, by all sides,” O’Brien said,...

August 2020 - Washington (CNN) As several countries come to the aid of warring factions in Libya, President Donald Trump has found himself caught in the middle of a group of strongmen he's forged close ties with during his presidency, prompting him to stay out of the...

August 2020 - The Spokesman for the Ahrar Al-Jufra Group (Jufra Freedom Group), Mahmoud Ghomais, reported that there have been dubious movements in the Al-Jufra and Sirte areas approximately a week ago, confirming in a television statement, that his group has...

August 2020 - New clashes broke out between militias following the arrest of several Chadian mercenaries who, according to the Libyan authorities, formed a “criminal group” that “looted and stole”. These mercenaries were under the leadership of Osama Jouili, head of...

August 2020 - Germany’s GIZ Libya launched an IT sector survey yesterday. It reported that the target of the study is to assess the employment potential in IT-related subsectors (e.g. mobile phone repair). The survey also aims to identify gaps in IT training and...

August 2020 - The foreign ministers of the state of Libya, the Republic of Malta, and the Republic of Turkey have released a joint statement, and said they held a meeting in Tripoli on 6 August 2020 to discuss the latest situation in Libya and the relations of joint...

August 2020 - The National Oil Corporation (NOC) reported on Tuesday the total loss of sales opportunities as a direct result of oil installation closures amounts to 7.841 billion dollars, during the 200 days of force majeure. The NOC, on its official Facebook page,...

August 2020 - CAIRO — Egypt and Greece on Thursday signed a maritime deal that sets the sea boundary between the two countries and demarcates an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights. The deal is a response to a similar agreement between Turkey and...

August 2020 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three individuals and a Malta-based company, accusing them of acting as a network of smugglers and contributing to instability in Libya. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement...

August 2020 We are pleased to publish an essay by Wolfgang Pusztai, an Austrian security and policy analyst, specialist of Libya.His thoughts are challenging indeed. Have a good read. La Vigie. In Libya there is an ongoing civil war since 2011 with different phases of...

August 2020 - WASHINGTON - Libya’s civil war and its role in regional stability have become more uncertain since June 20 when the Egyptian parliament authorized its troops to cross the border to help the forces of General Khalifa Haftar against Turkey-backed...

August 2020 - The Libyan Army Sunday claimed that Russian cargo planes had made new military shipments to forces loyal to putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Gen. Abdulhadi Dirah, spokesman for the army's Sirte-Jufra Joint Operations Unit, said...

August 2020 - Competition for natural gas in the Eastern Mediterranean is pushing U.S. partners and allies towards open confrontation, the Wall Street Journal reported. A developing alliance between Israel, Greece and Egypt, the beneficiaries of the finds, is squaring...

August 2020 - In a move that illustrates new levels of boldness, Russian fighters have seized one of the largest oil fields in Libya. The Es Sider oil field was one of the main economic pipelines for the Government of National Accord. Over the last seven months, the...

August 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States should not stop United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from naming a new U.N. Libya envoy to replace Ghassan Salame who quit nearly five months ago, Germany’s U.N. Ambassador Christoph Heusgen said on...

August 2020 It’s a “scandal,” according to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres. Many more say it’s a mess. It’s also a critical battlefield for the future of the Arab world, according to engaged capitals. It’s Libya. The 2011 international military intervention in...

August 2020 - Turkish and Russian diplomats will hold meetings on Libya in Moscow soon, said Alaexey Zaytsev, deputy spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry. The talks would focus on “different aspects of the Libyan crisis,” Zaytsev said on Thursday, according...

August 2020 - Acting Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Stephanie Williams warned that the Libyan people are increasingly scared that their future is being taken out of their hands by external actors, and that the...

August 2020 - In August 2011, as Libya’s rebels and Nato jets began an assault on Tripoli, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi delivered a speech calling on his supporters to defend the country from foreign invaders. “There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control...

August 2020 - ROME – The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Parliament condemned Turkey’s predatory behavior against Italian solideres in Libya, calling it “absurd.” Forty Italian soldiers working in a military field hospital, funded by Italy, in the Libyan city...

July 2020 - Libya's internationally recognised government in Tripoli will impose a full lockdown in areas of the country it controls, it said on Thursday, after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases. Libya, split since 2014 between areas held by the Government of National...

July 2020 - Ankara deployed a few hundred troops and an estimated 3,500-3,800 Syrian mercenaries over the first quarter of the year, according to a Pentagon report released last week When Turkey’s president signed a security deal last year to back one of the sides in...

July 2020 - Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) has expressed concerns about increasing military presence at its facilities and the seizure of jet fuel at Zueitina. NOC said the number of mercenaries at the Ras Lanuf petrochemical facility had increased recently. This...

July 2020 - The city of Sirte has become the slogan of the war in Libya, the Turkish — backed Government of National Accord forces are preparing and mobilising fighters to take control of the city, while at the same time the Libyan National Army is reinforcing its...

July 2020 - The United Nations’ Libya mission on Monday said an international audit of the country’s two parallel central bank branches was ready to begin, in what is called a “critical step” in creating conditions for their eventual reunification. The United Nations...

July 2020 - The United States has threatened General Khalifa Haftar with sanctions over his ties with Russia, the Wall Street Journal reports, after Russian military contractors with ties to the Kremlin seized control of Libya's largest field and the oil export...

July 2020- The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, as the Chairman of General Assembly of General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), has agreed to increase the capital budget of the GECOL. The agreement came in a meeting Monday to discuss issues...

July 2020  Abd al-Salam al-Badri, deputy PM in eastern-based government, rails against Turkish efforts to claim natural gas resources in Mediterranean and urges Israel to oppose them In a rare interview with an Israeli newspaper, a senior Libyan official with the...

July 2020 - The Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah asked the Schlumberger Company to facilitate and complete the development of a training center in Benghazi, in accordance with previous MoUs. This came during a meeting in London with...

July 2020 - Senior National Oil Corporation (NOC) delegation, led by its chairman Mustafa Sanalla, held what it called ‘‘several important technical meetings’’ in London with Petrofac, Schlumberger and EniProgetti, the NOC reported yesterday. The NOC said that these...

July 2020 The mass graves discovered in Tarhuna are a sad testament to a nation torn apart by Western intervention and civil war. While the withdrawal of General Khalifa Haftar’s forces from the town of Tarhuna, some 60 kilometres south of Tripoli, unleashed a wave of...

July 2020 - Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced yesterday that its chairman, Mustafa Sanalla, discussed Libya’s oil blockade, including the presence of foreign mercenaries at its oil installations, with UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazroui. During...

July 2020 - The Libyan Business Council announced yesterday the launch of a reform initiative and ‘‘platform’’ to support the private sector. It said that this done in an effort to take practical steps to crystallize a number of urgent reforms in accordance with the...

July 2020 - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Warfare has stopped - for now - in the Libyan capital, but long power blackouts caused by years of poor maintenance still cause misery in the scorching summer weather. The blackouts have led to protests, and armed men storming...

July 2020 - Ankara and Moscow announced that they agreed to consider establishing a joint working group to solve Libyan crisis, a joint statement said on Wednesday. The two countries "consider creating a Joint Working Group on Libya and convene for the next round of...

July 2020 - Following the death of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, Libya has struggled to rebuild state institutions and maintain order and stability. The transitional government ceded authority to the General National Congress (GNC) in 2012, but it encountered...

July 2020 - In a short update on the progress of maintenance work at Mitiga airport, Libya’s Airports Authority said the airport would reopen to flights in August. It gave no other details. The airport had suffered extensive bomb damage during Khalifa Hafter’s...

July 2020 - TRIPOLI, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Libya's UN-backed government and the rival eastern-based army are mobilizing forces in preparation for the fight to control the city of Sirte, some 450 km east of the capital Tripoli. The UN-backed government is trying to take...

July 2020 - In a recent article for the Atlantic Council, Nathalie Loiseau, a former French minister for European affairs and distinguished member of the European Parliament, expresses her disappointment about Turkey’s new adventurism in the Mediterranean basin in...

July 2020 - CAIRO, -OVER A CENTURY AGO, the founder of modern, secular Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, fought some of his first battles in the wadis and vilayets of north-eastern Libya. Now, the forces of the would-be founder of a new, pro-Islamist, neo-Ottoman Turkey,...

July 2020 - CAIRO, July 20 (Reuters) - Qatar’s state minister for defense affairs met on Monday with the Turkish defense minister and Libya’s minister of interior to discuss the latest developments in Libya, Qatar’s ministry of defense said on Twitter. Egyptian...

July 2020 - Egypt’s parliament has authorised the deployment of troops outside the country after the president threatened military action against Turkish-backed forces in Libya. President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has called the strategic coastal city of Sirte a "red line”...

July 2020 - The General Assembly of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) sacked the board of directors and appointed a new one in a meeting chaired by the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj on Sunday. The new board of directors include...

July 2020 - Since the 2011 NATO-backed revolt in Libya that ended 42 years of rule by strongman Muammar al-Qaddafi, the oil-rich North African country has been in perpetual turmoil. The latest phase began in April 2019, when military commander Khalifa Haftar and his...

July 2020 The meeting between Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al Sarraj and Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio comes days after the UAE was accused of instructing warlord Haftar's forces to disrupt Libyan National Oil Corporation's output. Italy and Libya are...

July 2020 Chinese Charge d'Affaires to Libya Wang Qimin (R) and the Libyan Charge d'Affaires to Tunisia Mohamed Bin Mustafa sign certificate of donation, in Tunis, Tunisia, July 17, 2020. The Chinese Embassy in Libya on Friday handed over a batch of medical supplies...

July 2020 This paper examines Russia's strategy towards Libya post-2011. Russia has arguably been filling the vacuum left by NATO to further its interests regardless of the cost to international peace and stability. This policy outlook examines Russia's strategy...

July 2020 - MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. Russia has received written assurances from the Libyan Government of National Accord that a solution to the release of the Russian nationals - Maksim Shugalei and Samer Hasan Ali Sueifan, employees of the Russian non-profit...

July 2020 - The United States Constitution is unique in the way it has endured over two centuries of a dynamic nation. It is a gold standard to which other countries would do well to exemplify when building the foundations of their own democratic societies. Such is...

July 2020 - A senior United States diplomat has urged Europe to take "a more robust role" in the Libyan conflict, starting with a focus on Russian military contractor Wagner Group and the roles played by Russia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates - countries that are...

July 2020 - Fathi Bashagha, interior minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), invited foreign missions to re-open in the Libyan capital on Thursday, saying that the GNA was ready to ensure the security of their employees, state-run Anadolu...

July 2020 - In 2011, Libya was rocked by the Arab Spring. Muammar Gaddafi's 42 years of dictatorship rule was coming to an end, but not before a civil war began in the country. The war was bloody and so violent that on Feb 15, 2011, the United Nations Security Council...

July 2020 - The plight of oil-rich, tribally segmented Libya resembles that of several other war-torn countries in the greater Middle East, namely Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen. In each case, a combination of internal strife and misguided external intervention has...

July 2020 - A long-delayed international audit of Libya’s central bank is finally going ahead after the country’s prosecutor threatened legal action and a military commander made it a condition to lift a crippling oil blockade, judicial officials said. The audit of...

July 2020 - The Economic Salon, a Libyan policy reform think-tank made up of the country’s elite administrators, managers, politicians, activists, media personalities and business people, has proposed reforms for Libya’s ailing electricity and renewable sector. These...

July 2020 - Russia has announced it wants peace in Libya, according to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.  He told reporters that Russia is working with Turkey on an immediate ceasefire agreement. Russia’s commitment to the process is questionable, however. Lavrov’s...

July 2020 - After Libya lifted and then declared again force majeure on all its oil exports in the span of just two days, the United States warned that parties in the conflict that continue to undermine Libya’s economy and seek confrontation face isolation and risk of...

July 2020 - The eastern-based Libyan parliament, which supports the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar, has given the Egyptian military permission to intervene in the civil war. “We call for joint efforts between the two brotherly nations – Libya...

July 2020 - A delayed audit of Libya’s central bank is now contributing to a devastating oil blockade, the latest twist to a regional proxy war launched by Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar against the United Nations-backed government in Tripoli. Haftar’s...

July 2020 - Global oil market analysts are carefully watching the latest news emerging from Africa’s (potentially) largest oil producer. In an unexpected move, Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) stated lifted the force majeure on crude exports from its key...

July 2020 - Libya’s oil industry was thrown into deeper confusion with military commander Khalifa Haftar, a key player in the nation’s civil war, warning he would continue to blockade ports and fields, barely a day after the state energy company said exports could...

July 2020 - The Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Libya, Stephanie Williams, expressed readiness to support Libyan authorities in security sector reform, the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) said on Sunday. Williams made her remarks...

July 2020 - Mr President, firstly, thank you to the Secretary-General for his briefing, and to the Acting Special Representative to the Secretary General and her team for the continued and tireless efforts of all those working in the Mission to end the conflict in...

July 2020 - Egypt’s naval exercise last week near its border with Libya was a message to Turkey over its growing ambitions in the Eastern Mediterranean, wrote Middle East analyst Seth J. Franzman in the Jerusalem Post on Sunday. The drill dubbed “Hasam-20” featured...

July 2020 - The 110-room Bahari Beach Hotel in Kunduchi in Dar es Salaam. The property which has been the subject of an ownership tussle between its former managing director and the government of Libya has ended with Tripoli reportedly repossessing it. The new...

July 2020 - TUNIS (Reuters) - Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) on Sunday accused the United Arab Emirates of instructing eastern forces in Libya’s civil war to reimpose a blockade of oil exports after the departure of a first tanker in six months. The UAE, along with...

July 2020 - The Tunisian President Kais Saied, held discussions with the Libyan Minister of Finance, Faraj Bumatari, initiating several joint projects to develop bilateral agreements in various fields in relation to investment. The Tunisian Presidency quoted Bumatari...

July 2020 - As U.S. attention has drifted from Libya, the threat of war between two of Washington’s longtime regional allies and military partners is rising in the divided North African country. Turkey and Egypt, whose authoritarian leaders have relatively warm...

July 2020 - The Libyan National Oil Company has announced the resumption of oil production and exports after a nearly six-month shutdown that has cost the country $6bn (£4.7bn) in lost revenues and deepened the country’s civil war. “The NOC has lifted force majeure on...

July 2020 - CAIRO--The Egyptian army launched, on Thursday, a large-scale military exercise dubbed “Hasm 2020” in the western region near the border with Libya. Various types of advanced battle equipment were used and tested in preparation for what could be an...

July 2020 - Libyan and US authorities have launched an investigation into suspected gold-for-cash trades between Venezuela and Libyan eastern commander Khalifa Haftar.   Security officials from the United States, Europe and Libya told the Wall Street Journal that the...

July 2020 - Dr. Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, yesterday underscored the UAE's unwavering support for efforts by the international community to achieve a political solution to the Libyan crisis. In remarks delivered virtually...

July 2020 - With Turkey vowing to support more offensives by its ally in the Libyan civil war, Egypt might intervene militarily on the opposite side, potentially leading to a dangerous conflict between the Turkish and Egyptian militaries in that North African nation. ...

July 2020 - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey and Italy’s defence ministers agreed at talks on Tuesday on the need for a political solution to Libya’s conflict, according to a readout by the Turkish defence ministry. “We have gladly observed that we share common and similar...

July 2020 - The Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) signed Tuesday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen decentralization and sub-nationla governance with the United Kingdom's government. Libya's GNA was represented by Presidential Council member...

July 2020 - During his visit to Tripoli July 4th Turkey’s defense minister Hulusi Akar signed an agreement on military cooperation with the representatives of the Government of National Accord (GNA). The signature was held behind the closed doors, but the few details...

July 2020 - Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Security Council open video-teleconference meeting on the situation in Libya, in New York today: Minister Maas, let me begin by thanking you and the German presidency for the opportunity...

July 2020 - The five-year plan (2020-2024) was elaborated with the support of the Ministry of Planning and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the Stabilization Facility for Libya (SFL). The plan is the first one to be unfolded through an inclusive...

July 2020 - CAIRO – 6 July 2020: The United States opposes any foreign intervention in Libya and urges respecting ceasefire and the United Nations arms embargo, US Ambassador to Egypt Jonathan Cohen told Al-Qahera Al-Aan program on Al Hadath on Sunday. Asked about the...

July 2020 - Libyan officials in the capital of Tripoli said Sunday that overnight airstrikes hit a key military base on the city’s outskirts that was recently retaken by Turkey-backed forces. A spokesman for the Tripoli-based forces, Col. Mohamed Gnounou, said the...

July 2020 - The rosy future of the offshore East Mediterranean (East-Med) gas boom is in jeopardy. The current COVID-related economic downturn, combined with the dramatic drop in demand for oil and gas worldwide, has already led to several delays for major offshore...

July 2020 - By now, the wars in Syria and Libya should by now be considered two manifestations of one larger conflict. After Turkey suffered losses at the hands of the Russian-backed Syrian army, the UN-recognised government in Tripoli routs Khalifa Haftar’s forces...

July 2020 - Turkey’s market share in Libya could reach up to 30%, up from its current level of 13%, if the North African country can achieve lasting stability, a top business leader said Sunday. Murtaza Karanfil, a Libya representative of the Istanbul-based...

July 2020 - Russia has decided to reopen its embassy in Libya although its head will temporarily be based in neighbouring Tunisia, Interfax news agency cited Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov as saying. Russia evacuated its diplomats from Libya in October 2013...

July 2020 - The Arab Commercial Bank (ACB) bank expressed its strong interest in building partnerships with SME business centres and incubators in Libya. The news was revealed by the EU for Private Sector in Libya (EU4PSL) project on Tuesday (30 June) after its...

July 2020 - Turkish companies will build more than 3,000 prefabricated houses in the Libyan capital Tripoli, where the demand for housing has grown due to the number of civilians left homeless by putschist Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s atrocities. A tender for the...

July 2020 - The commercial port in Libya’s second city Benghazi is working round the clock three years after reopening, attempting to raise revenues for its restoration and expansion. The port was caught in the crossfire as rival factions battled for control of...

July 2020 - France has temporarily pulled out of a Nato security operation amid a major row with Turkey. The defence ministry said France had suspended its role in Operation Sea Guardian, accusing Turkey of violating an arms embargo against Libya. It comes weeks after...

July 2020 - A plenary session of the general assembly of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL), on Wednesday, set the date of July 19 for holding two general assembly meetings, the first being to consider amending some regulations of the company’s articles...

July 2020 - Following intense and varied speculation yesterday about potential ‘‘wealth redistribution’’ deals of Libya’s oil revenues in return for the unblocking of oilfields, Libya’s state National Oil Corporation (NOC) today clarified the type of ongoing domestic...

July 2020 - A Greek consulate will be opening in the Libyan city of Benghazi, as relations between Greece and the Libyan House of Representatives have improved, after Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias’ surprise visit to Libya yesterday. “Today I had the pleasure,...

July 2020 - A delegation of Turkish businessmen is preparing to visit war-torn Libya this month to make offers to rebuild the country and help secure its energy needs. The group is set to visit the country within two weeks, Reuters reported on Wednesday citing two...

July 2020 - A former UN envoy to Libya has accused the Security Council of “hypocrisy” and of undermining his efforts to bring peace to the war-torn North African country. In a podcast interview aired Tuesday, Ghassan Salame said the majority of the UN Security...

July 2020 - France has temporarily pulled out of a Nato security operation amid its major row with Turkey over Ankara’s alleged violation of an arms embargo against Libya. The French defence ministry on July 2 said France had suspended its participation in Operation...

July 2020 - Talks are under way to restart Libya’s oil exports. The National Oil Corp. (NOC) has said negotiations have been taking place over the last few weeks. These involve the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord, NOC and unnamed “regional countries”. The...

June 2020 - Libyan tribes loyal to military commander Khalifa Hifter on Monday offered to end their blockade of the country´s oil production, which has cost Libya over $6 billion since January, as part of a political settlement in the war-torn country. In a statement...

June 2020 - The situation on the ground in Libya is growing worse by the second. The House of Representatives (HOR) and their military the LNA have been embattled with the Turkish backed internationally recognized GNA for months. This has created a split within NATO...

June 2020 - Even though the 14 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets and Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer bombers delivered by Russia to Libya in May have not yet been used in combat in Libya’s civil war, the question of who exactly is piloting these warplanes has already come up. A...

June 2020 - Qatar and Turkey share a common ideological affiliation and have been accused of supporting the same extremist networks to advance their regional agenda. ANKARA –Hours after strong statements by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Turkish President...

June 2020 - The leader of Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte have agreed to establish a committee that will help facilitate the return of Italian companies to the North African country, the Libya...

June 2020 - Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqyang expressed his country's consent to Cairo Declaration on Libya, and stressed China's support to the role of the Arab League in the crisis resolution process. The envoy's statements came in a phone call with Assistant...

June 2020 - Morale was so low among the ranks loyal to Libya’s recognised government, a clutch of fighters secretly planned on deserting the battlefield if they were forced to take on the Russians. The highly-trained mercenaries – hired to support renegade general...

June 2020 - Statement by the spokespersons of the German Federal Foreign Office, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation on the situation in Libya (25.06.): In light of the growing...

June 2020 - Russian mercenaries are reported to have arrived at the Sharara oilfield, Libya’s National Oil Corp. (NOC) has said. The company said it was “deeply concerned” about the arrival of Russian and other mercenaries at the field. Armed forces were reported to...

June 2020 - Syria yesterday declared its support for both the Libyan National Army led by General Khalifa Haftar and for Egypt’s initiatives with regards Libya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Walid Al-Muallem, said. During a press conference in Damascus yesterday,...

June 2020  While a direct Egyptian intervention would boost Haftar's chances of keeping control of Sirte, Egypt still sees this as a 'last resort,' analysts say. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has upped the ante in the chaotic conflict in Libya, warning Cairo...

June 2020 - The head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) and Washington’s ambassador to Libya urged western Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj to return to the United Nations-backed cease-fire process during a meeting west of Tripoli on Monday, the State Department...

June 2020 - Turkey has announced plans to explore a slice of the Mediterranean claimed last year by the Tripoli-based Libyan government, following an air offensive that has pushed the rival forces of warlord Khalifa Haftar out of western Libya. Turkish energy minister...

June 2020 - "This is a hostile act, direct interference and amounts to a declaration of war," the Tripoli-based GNA said in a statement. The war of words comes on the eve of a virtual meeting of Arab League foreign ministers on Libya, in which the GNA has declined to...

June 2020 - Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday said his country has a legitimate right to intervene in neighbouring Libya and ordered his army to be ready to carry out any mission outside the country, if necessary. Sisi’s comments came amid high...

June 2020 - Turkish companies are in talks with Libya's United Nations-backed legitimate government, the Government of National Accord (GNA), to meet the urgent need for electricity in the country, which sees up to 10 hours of power cuts per day. The first steps are...

June 2020 - The Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Buccino, has declared his country’s readiness to provide specialized teams and equipment to help clear mines laid by Haftar militias as they fled from areas in southern Tripoli. This information came during a...

June 2020 - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Thursday received the Greek foreign minister in Cairo and affirmed that Egypt’s efforts in the Libyan issue aim to restore the pillars of the Libyan state and fill the power vacuum which caused terrorist groups to...

June 2020 - Turkey will work alongside Italy to achieve peace and a viable political process in Libya, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday at a news conference in Ankara, with his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio. Cavusoglu also said Turkey wants to work...

June 2020 - Assistant Secretary General of the Arab League Hossam Zaky said that the General Secretariat has received a request from the Egyptian delegation to hold an emergency virtual meeting of the Arab League Council to discuss developments in the ongoing Libyan...

June 2020 - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said that Ankara and Washington will start to cooperate in Libya, Libya Observer reported on Friday. “Turkish foreign and defence ministries and intelligence will soon work with U.S. counterparts on Libya…which...

June 2020 - Ankara might deploy F-16 fighter jets and attack helicopters in Libya, Turkish columnist Okan Müderrisoğlu said in the pro-government Sabah newspaper on Friday. “Nobody should be surprised if Turkish F16s and attack helicopters are seen at the military...

June 2020 - MOSCOW. June 16 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov discussed the situation in Libya with Abdelhadi al-Houij, the minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation in the Libyan government based in the eastern part of the...

June 2020 Senior Turkish officials including Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Tripoli to meet Prime Minister Fayez al Sarraj after Turkey helped Libya's UN-backed government stave off an offensive by warlord Khalifa Haftar's militias. Turkish Foreign Minister...

June 2020 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow would welcome efforts by Washington to use its influence to help reach a ceasefire in Libya, the RIA news agency reported. Since 2014, Libya has been split, with the internationally...

June 2020 - Amb. W. Robert Pearson, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey (2000-2003) and director general of the U.S. Foreign Service (2002-2006), spoke to Middle East Forum Radio host Gregg Roman on June 10 about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's "imperial...

June 2020 - Events in Libya have taken a remarkable turn after the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli, the Government of National Accord (GNA), took back full control of the capital last Monday. The move forced Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army...

June 2020 - The tide of Libya’s war is turning against renegade general Khalifa Haftar. Italy should seize this opportunity to lead European countries to a harmonised Libya policy. Italy has undoubtedly played a central role in the twists and turns of Libya’s fate...

June 2020 - Recent reversals in Libya’s ongoing conflict have cast a dramatic spotlight on the evolving role of Russian and other foreign private military companies. In late May, U.S. Army General Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S. Africa Command, expressed alarm...

June 2020 - The Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed cooperation in oil and gas drilling in Al-Sarraj's recent visit to Ankara. Donmez told reporters...

June 2020 - Libya could gradually become one of the most important actors in the global energy equation due the rich energy resources it possesses, primarily the country’s vast oil reserves. Unfortunately, now that oil and natural gas are involved, Libya has become...

June 2020 - The Interior Minister in the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bashagha, said that any initiatives to end the political crisis and unify the Libyan state institutions are welcome. In a tweet, Bashagha stressed that these...

June 2020 - The Brussels court ordered on Thursday that frozen assets owned by the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) are not to be transferred outside the Euroclear accounts, after imposing a precautionary attachment on those assets. The ruling stipulates that the...

June 2020 - The United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker, said on Thursday that the US is attempting to establish the truth of reports that Khalifa Haftar’s plane was seen landing in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas last week,...

June 2020- Civil society groups have accused the Zug-based oil trader Kolmar of complicity in war crimes related to the purchase of oil from war-torn Libya. n the complaint filed with the Swiss attorney general’s office on Thursday, non-governmental organisation TRIAL...

June 2020 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to discuss Libya and potential ceasefire there with Turkish counterparts Mevlut Cavusoglu and Hulusi Akar. Two senior Russian diplomats will visit Istanbul on Sunday for talks with...

June 2020 - Turkey's military conducted an eight-hour long air drill to the Libyan coast on Thursday to show that it could rapidly and easily deploy several F-16s and early warning aircraft to the country if needed, a Turkish official told Middle East Eye.  In a...

June 2020 - Russia and Turkey, who have formed a sometimes rocky alliance over the past four years, back opposing sides in Libya’s wrenching war but may yet find a deal over the conflict that would leave the West as bystanders, analysts say. Such a scenario would be a...

June 2020 - Amid the escalated tension in the Mediterranean, Turkish Navy and air force conducted coordinated exercises off the coast of Libya, Turkish Ministry of Defence announced on 12th June. “In an effort to practice and improve the uninterrupted conduct of...

June 2020 - Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and the French president have expressed their support for an initiative which has called for an immediate ceasefire in Libya. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and Emmanuel Macron...

June 2020 - Donald Trump has joined the calls for a ceasefire in Libya amid concerns that Egypt would be willing to send ground troops into the country to prevent a rout of its ally Khalifa Haftar, the leader of forces in the east. Airstrikes and rocket attacks in the...

June 2020 - The United States needs to play a more active role in Libya, both in achieving a ceasefire and in political talks, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, as Libya's warring sides restarted U.N.-led ceasefire talks. Turkey supports...

June 2020 - “Field Marshal” Khalifa Haftar’s retreat from Tripoli should not be confused with Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Haftar was foolish to try to capture the Libyan capital — it even surprised his foreign backers — but he probably won’t have to retreat very...

June 2020 - The top US military commander for operations in Africa suggested sending US Army trainers to Tunisia in light of Russia’s military involvement in neighboring Libya’s civil war. “As Russia continues to fan the flames of the Libyan conflict, regional...

June 2020 - The United Nations mission to Libya says the Tripoli-based internationally-recognized government and the rival Libyan National Army are “fully engaged” in joint military talks. The mission, in a statement, said the two sides participated in the third round...

June 2020 - A Greek navy helicopter attempted to stop and check a cargo ship accompanied by Turkish frigates in the Eastern Mediterenean early Wednesday, but retreated after a warning from Turkey's military. A Turkish official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said...

June 2020 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met last week in Ankara with Fayez al-Sarraj, prime minister of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA), which Turkey has supported militarily in its fight against General Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan...

June 2020 - Two major oilfields in southwestern Libya have reopened after months of a blockade that shut off most of the country’s crude production, costing billions of dollars in lost revenue. The state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) confirmed on Sunday that...

June 2020 - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced a new initiative for Libya on Saturday, flanked by the war-torn nation's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, proposing an elected leadership council and a ceasefire starting on June 8. Sisi, who was also...

June 2020 - One of the photographs from President Tayyip Erdoğan's meeting with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez el-Sarraj, who was hosted at the Beştepe Complex the other day, was quite remarkable. Erdoğan was showing his guest the verse "La Galiba illallah / There is no...

June 2020 - BENGHAZI, Libya (Sputnik) - Aguila Saleh, the president of Libya's eastern-based parliament, will pay an official visit to Moscow to discuss the political situation in the North African country on Sunday, a source from the Libyan parliament said. "The head...

June 2020 - The United Nations said Libya’s warring factions have agreed to resume cease-fire talks, following days of heavy fighting and eastern-based forces retaking a key town from their rivals after a string of setbacks. The U.N. Mission in Libya said it hoped the...

June 2020 - Bloomberg has reported a Libyan official as saying that the Government of National Accord (GNA) is going to try the Russians accused of espionage and interference in elections despite pressure by Moscow for their release. The newspaper said Friday that the...

June 2020 - Moscow's talks with the delegation of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) focused on the prospects of the ceasefire between the GNA and the Libyan National Army (LNA), a source in the RussianForeign Ministry, who was present at the negotiations,...

June 2020 - The United States said on Wednesday that it was waiting to build an “empowered” UN mission to Libya, frustrating France and Germany who say that the delay in approving in appointing an envoy undermines efforts to end the conflict. The position of the UN...

June 2020 - US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Francis Fannon called on Turkey to refrain from any provocative actions, during an online discussion on the East Med pipeline and trilateral partnership between Greece, Cyprus and Israel. “Stop all provocative...

June 2020 - The United Nations said Tuesday it expects “things to get moving in the next few days” following the agreement by Libya’s warring parties to resume cease-fire negotiations following days of heavy fighting. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said acting U.N....

June 2020 -The Turkey-Libya memorandum of understanding (MoU) relating to maritime zones “cannot as a legal matter affect the rights or obligations of third states” such as Greece, a US energy official said on Tuesday during  a virtual roundtable discussion on the...

June 2020 - The United Nations said Libya’s warring factions have agreed to resume cease-fire talks, following days of heavy fighting and eastern-based forces retaking a key town from their rivals after a string of setbacks. The U.N. Mission in Libya said it hoped the...

June 2020 - Civil society groups have accused the Zug-based oil trader Kolmar of complicity in war crimes related to the purchase of oil from war-torn Libya. In the complaint filed with the Swiss attorney general’s office on Thursday, non-governmental organisation...

June 2020 - The United Nations confirmed that the National Oil Corporation (NOC), based in Tripoli, is the only Libyan authority legally authorised to sell oil. This came following reports that France had seized an oil tanker which was on its way to Libya, the vessel...

June 2020 - Libya looks to be at the end of one bleak chapter, but there is no guarantee that the next will be any better for a country that has been torn to pieces by civil war and foreign intervention since Col Muammar Gaddafi met his grisly death in 2011. Since...

June 2020 - Egypt announced an international alliance that includes Greece, Cyprus, the United Arab Emirates and France to confront Turkish provocative moves in Libya and the Mediterranean. Egypt has announced an anti-Turkey alliance that includes Greece, Cyprus, the...

June 2020 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to create a “fait accompli” over rights to natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean by drilling off the coast of Libya, analysts told Arab News on Saturday. Ankara’s announcement that it intends to...

May 2020 - Turkey may have gotten kudos for tipping the balance in Libya, but Russian countermoves raise the prospect of Turkish collaboration with Russia in the North African country, which is not to the liking of countries that have been giving plaudits to Ankara....

May 2020 - Moscow has refuted the US accusations that the national banknote manufacturer was forging money for Libya, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. "We would like to note that under the conditions of actual diarchy in Libya, there are...

May 2020 - Turkey and Russia have emerged as the strangest of bedfellows in the Middle East in recent times. While on one hand, Putin and Erdogan signed economically lucrative deals in energy, military, and other sectors, and appeared like the new best friends, they...

May 2020 - A French navy frigate saluted an oil tanker as it prepared to load refined petroleum products from a port in eastern Libya, preventing it from reaching its destination and letting it float off the coast of coasts for almost a week, four Western diplomats...

May 2020 - Things are not going well for European diplomacy in the Libyan civil war. The latest initiative, convened by the German government in January, assembled the major foreign supporters of Libya’s warring factions in Berlin, with the aim of having them back...

May 2020 - Libya’s civil war has become an increasingly competitive geostrategic struggle. A UN-brokered settlement supported by non-aligned states is the most viable means for a stable de-escalation, enabling Libya to regain its sovereignty. Download this Brief as a...

May 2020 - Over the weekend LNA (Libyan National Army) forces began moving away from the capital, Tripoli, which they had trying to take since April 2019. The cause of the retreat was the ability of the growing Turkish mercenary force to reinforce the various militias...

May 2020 - U.S. A short-lived mission uncovered by U.N. investigators offers a glimpse into the world of those who have thrived off Libya’s chaos. CAIRO — Two former British marines piloted their boats, a pair of military-grade inflatables, across the Mediterranean...

May 2020 - U.S. President Donald Trump called for a “rapid de-escalation” of the Libyan conflict on a call with Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday, the White House said, after recent gains by forces backed by Turkey prompted threats of retaliation. Ankara...

May 2020 - Forces allied with Libya’s UN-supported government have wrested control of a key military base on the outskirts of the country’s capital from Khalifa Haftar, dealing a significant blow to the renegade general. In 2019 Haftar planned to take Tripoli in a...

May 2020 - Russia and Turkey yesterday reaffirmed their commitment to cooperation in the Syrian crisis and called for an immediate cessation in hostilities in Libya and the resumption of the political process. This came in a call between Russian Foreign Minister...

May 2020 - With a succession of quick victories, Turkish-supported forces in Libya have rolled back the gains of a would-be strongman whose allies, Russia and the United Arab Emirates, now face tough choices. CAIRO — A string of victories by Turkish-backed forces in...

May 2020 - Rival factions in Libya’s civil war both claim that Russia has transferred six MiG-29 fighters and two Su-24 attack jets to Al Jufra airbase in central Libya to support the Benghazi-based Libyan National Army (LNA) faction led by General Khalifa...

May 2020 - European countries should try to revive the political approach to resolving the Libya conflict, particularly given that Turkey may want to do so from its current position of strength. Libya doesn’t do incremental change, it seems. Instead, the country...

May 2020 - Among world and regional powers involved in the Libyan crisis, China is often not considered very much because it is not sending mercenaries to the country or mobilizing drones for air raids, like the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Russia. Beijing,...

May 2020 - Libya’s civil war has become an increasingly competitive geostrategic struggle. A UN-brokered settlement supported by non-aligned states is the most viable means for a stable de-escalation, enabling Libya to regain its sovereignty. HIGHLIGHTS The Libya...

May 2020 - The first German naval vessels to take part in Operation Irini, the EU naval mission to enforce Libya’s long-flouted arms embargo, will join in August, German Minister of State Niels Annen said. Mr Annen told The National that Germany’s commitment to the...

May 2020 - Russia has several options for escalating its involvement in Libya’s civil war, but the West could make continued intervention too costly for Moscow’s liking. Over the past year, Russia has significantly escalated its military involvement in Libya, in the...

May 2020 - On April 25, 2020, Khalifa Haftar, the eastern-based head of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) declared on television that he had been granted a popular mandate to rule. This announcement came on the back of a string of embarrassing military...

May 2020 - Turkey may face additional obstacles to its military interventions in Syria and Libya as a result of increasing cooperation between its adversaries in these two war-torn countries.  As Turkey was bombing Syrian forces in Idlib earlier this month, a...

May 2020 - A team of Western mercenaries linked with two Dubai-based companies was briefly deployed to Libya to assist Russian-backed strongman Khalifa Haftar in his offensive to capture Tripoli, according to a confidential UN report, underscoring how the country’s...

May 2020 - Western governments have watched the battle over Libya’s capital, Tripoli, with disinterest, even as it has drawn in a growing number of foreign powers. But this conflict has more to teach us about the future world order, or disorder, than many observers...

May 2020 - T Turkish Petroleum (TPAO) has reportedly applied to Libya's Tripoli-basedGovernment of National Accord (GNA) for an exploration permit in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey's Anadolu Agency quotes Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez as saying that...

May 2020 - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has asked the commander of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagal, to urgently send 1200 fighters to Libyan frontlines to support warlord Khalifa Haftar’s ongoing war in southern Tripoli and western Sirte,...

May 2020 - State-owned oil company Turkish Petroleum (IPAO) has submitted an application to Tripoli-based government to start drilling in parts of the eastern Mediterranean outlined in the country’s contentious maritime borders agreement with Libya, Turkey ‘s Energy...

May 2020 - The arrival of the new coronavirus in Libya has not interrupted the battle for Tripoli. Since 2011, when a series of uprisings backed up by a NATO air campaign overthrew dictator Muammar Qaddafi, Libya has progressively fragmented. There is now an all-out...

May 2020 - While Washington has been accusing Moscow of inflaming the conflict in war-torn Libya by sending mercenaries to fight on behalf of strongman Khalifa Hifter, signs have been emerging that Russia is increasing contacts with the Hifter-aligned eastern-based...

May 2020 - Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece and the UAE have condemned Turkey’s “illegal activities” and expansionism in pursuing natural gas in Cyprus' exclusive economic zone. UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Anwar Gargash said the meeting on Monday was an...

May 2020 - This discussion paper explores the mercenary nature of the Sudanese paramilitary groups’ in Libya. It also looks into how the involvement of Khartoum’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (i.e. the RSF commander General Mohamed Hemedti) in the current...

May 2020 - Among the bevy of great and middle powers involved in Libya, China is often neglected. It is not pouring in mercenaries or conducting airstrikes—like the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Russia—but China is steadily investing and exerting influence in ways...

May 2020 - The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the war-torn country’s sovereign wealth fund, is making a fresh push to water down some of the international sanctions it has been under since the revolution which ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi from power nine years...

May 2020 - Court of the International Commercial Chamber rejected the lawsuit lodged by Turkish company Tekfen-TML against the state of Libya calling for compensation worth 95 million dollars, saying its investments were subject to damage in Libya by February 17...