Son of former Libyan ruler Gaddafi runs for president, officials say
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, registered on Sunday as a presidential candidate for the Dec. 24 election, an official from...
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UN praises Cyprus support for work on plane suspected of breaching sanctions
The United Nations has praised Cyprus support for the work UN inspectors carried out on the island on a small plane suspected to have violated...
FBI in Cyprus to inspect suspected arms-smuggling plane
A squad of FBI experts is in Cyprus to inspect an aircraft at Paphos airport with potential links to arms smuggling to Libya, police confirmed...
Aircraft under police guard over possible links to arms smuggling
A small aircraft that has been in Cyprus since 2019 and is currently parked at Paphos airport is being guarded until UN experts arrive to...
Greece working towards resetting relations with Libya
Greece and Libya have agreed to hold talks on marking out their maritime zones in the Mediterranean, Prime Minister Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, after a...
The results of the political dialogue in Geneva: a surprise or a natural sequence of events?
The last round of the voting process at the Libyan Dialogue Forum in Geneva on February 5, 2021 resulted in victory for a list of...
Ahmed Maiteeq, a politician who can make a difference
There are politicians in Libya who are able to communicate with the West on an equal footing Experts believe Ahmed Maiteeq stands out among them...
International law shields Republic from recognition of north says expert
Possible recognition of the north by Turkey’s satellite states or close allies would violate UN Security Council resolutions and international law, a law expert said...
Turkey says EU sanctions on Turkish firm over Libya embargo show bias
Turkey said on Tuesday the European Union sanctions on a Turkish firm accused of breaking a U.N. arms embargo on Libya displayed the EU’s double standard...
Libyan ceasefire: still a long way from permanent peace
By Jonathan Gorvett, CM Regional Correspondent AFTER more than a year of fighting, thousands of deaths and the large‑scale collapse of many basic services, last...
Egypt’s Sisi wins parliamentary approval for possible Libya intervention
Egypt’s parliament gave President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight...
Erdogan says he and Trump agreed ‘some issues’ on Libya
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he discussed the conflict in Libya with U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call late Monday and that the...
Erdogan hosts Libya PM as Turkey looks to lock in gains
Libya’s internationally recognised leader will meet President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Thursday as the allies seek to lock in recent gains on the battlefield...
Erdogan versus the world
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not an ‘Islamist’, in the extreme sense of the word. He doesn’t wear a suicide vest, he doesn’t behead...
Turkey says Libya’s Haftar must choose political solution
Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar must abide by calls for a political solution to the conflict in Libya and take steps to secure “calm...
Why the Berlin agreement on Libya is a failure
By Abbas Juma, Perhaps, the most important international event since the beginning of the year was held in the capital of Germany – the conference...
EU must consider ways to support Libya truce -Borrell
The European Union will discuss all ways to uphold a formal ceasefire in Libya but any peace settlement will need real EU support to make...
Foreign powers to push Libyan rivals for truce in Berlin
Germany and the United Nations will push rival Libyan camps and their foreign backers fighting over the capital to agree on Sunday to a truce...
House condemns Turkish arms sales to Libya
The House plenum on Friday unanimously condemned Turkey’s decision to sell arms and dispatch troops to Tripoli in violation of the UN and EU embargo...
Our View: Very good reasons why the Libya summit is not about the EEZ
Cyprus’ political parties have suddenly become interested in the Libyan civil war. For years they had shown complete indifference to what was going on, but...
