Beirut — On the southern edge of Libya’s capital, drones belonging to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates fly missions against forces on opposite sides. Below them, mine-resistant vehicles provided to Libyan government forces by Turkeyhunt for Jordanian-built armored personnel carriers supplied by the UAE, which supports a rival government operating …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The man who served as Libya’s prime minister for the final five years of dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s rule will be released on Saturday to receive medical treatment abroad, Libya’s justice ministry said in a statement. The authorities in Libya were no longer able to provide effective treatment …
On paper, Libya should be booming. It’s one of the world’s top 10 countries in oil reserves. It has more than a thousand miles of coastline on the Mediterranean. And it serves as a vital conduit linking Africa, Europe and the Middle East. But since the Arab Spring revolutions in …
Eight years after the fall of its former ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains plagued by instability. Last month the self-styled Libyan National Army led by strongman General Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive on the capital, Tripoli. BBC Arabic’s Feras Killani has spent time embedded with fighters allied to the country’s …
Forces led by Khalifa Hifter, known as the Libyan National Army, pushed west toward Tripoli on Friday, after Hifter announced his intention to seize the city. Tripoli is controlled by the Presidential Council and Government of National Accord, which is backed by the United Nations. Militia groups that support the accord …
CYRENE, Libya (Reuters) – Graffiti covers the walls of a Greek amphitheatre in Cyrene, an ancient ruined city in eastern Libya now struggling with neglect, vandals and illegal confiscation of land by locals. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the ancient ruins of the Greek and Roman city of Cyrene, …
The Libyan capital has seen a week of deadly fighting between armed groups About 400 inmates escaped from a prison near the Libyan capital in a mass-jail break on Sunday after a week of deadly clashes between rival armed groups in the city. The prisoners forced open doors and overwhelmed guards in …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – With two brothers in jail, the family house gone and her papers lost in the battle for Benghazi, Fatma is finding it hard to restart her life at the other end of Libya but impossible to imagine going back. FILE PHOTO: A historic building, that was destroyed …
BENGHAZI, Libya — Pulverized buildings daubed with the names of fallen fighters line the ghostly seafront in Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city. Land mines and booby-trapped bodies are scattered across the rubble. At night, men huddle over bonfires piled with broken furniture. This picture of devastation is what victory looks …
LEPTIS MAGNA, Libya (Reuters) – The limestone and marble ruins of Leptis Magna on Libya’s coast could be a hive of activity and a top tourist destination, but conflict has left one of ancient Rome’s great Mediterranean cities almost entirely cut off from the outside world. Ruins are seen …
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Fashionable cafes springing up in Libya’s capital are shutting out single men and catering for women looking for a break from the tensions – political and personal – crowding in around them. Women sit at a cafe on a beach in Tripoli, Libya October 28, 2017. …
FILE – In this Nov. 19, 2011, file photo, Seif al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Zintan, a town south of the capital Tripoli, Libya. BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Seif al-Islam, the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, …