At least 12 people have been reported killed on Wednesday as armed militants including at least one suicide bomber stormed the offices of the Libyan electoral commission in Tripoli in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The attackers set the building ablaze, according to spokesman Khaled Amar, who fled with[…]
Members of Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord arrived in Tripoli on Wednesday, defying threats by rival factions that it was not welcome in the capital. Reports of sporadic gunfire and road blocks leading into Tripoli later emerged, with questions raised whether violence would erupt, or a peaceful transition of[…]
Members of Libya’s UN-backed unity government reportedly arrived in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, defying warnings by rival factions that it should not move there. The Presidential Council was formed under a UN-mediated peace deal late last year in an effort to end the political chaos and conflict that has[…]
Gripping the bars of the cage holding 28 defendants in a Tripoli Courtroom on Wednesday, former head of the Libyan external intelligence agency Abuzeid Dorda pulled himself to a standing position. Both his legs were broken in a fall whilst in custody in 2011 and he cannot stand unaided. “I[…]
At least eight people, including five foreigners, were killed when gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday. It follows a car bomb at a vehicle stand outside the Corinthia Hotel which caused only minor injuries to some hotel staff, Tripoli security committee chief Essam al-Na’as[…]
Heavy fighting between rival militias vying for control of Libya’s main airport in Tripoli has left at least seven people dead and halted all flights. Explosions and anti-aircraft gunfire were heard from early Sunday morning on the airport road and other parts of the capital until the situation seemed to[…]
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