Libya News

Four migrants were found dead and three were missing after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast, the North African country's coast guard said Tuesday.The agency also rescued 13 migrants who had been shipwrecked as...

Libyan author Mohamed Alnaas became the youngest winner of the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction with his debut novel "Bread on Uncle Milad's Table" on Sunday.Alnaas, 31, will receive $50,000 and fund...

Libyan oil revenue has dropped by at least 35% in the month-long stand-off between Fathi Bashagha and Abdulhamid Dbeibah which forced several production facilities across the country to close in mid-April, according to...

The United Nations' secretary general's special adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said on Friday that the Joint Committee between the Libyan House of Representatives and the High Council of State on Constitutional T...

Protesters on Thursday fired shots outside Libya’s Hariga port in a failed attempt to stop the loading of 1 million barrels of crude oil bound for the UK, in an incident that comes just one day after Libyan prime minister-designate Fathi Ba...

Prime minister of the Tobruk-based government triggered fighting by trying to unseat UN-recognised leader in Tripoli.

Fragile ceasefire strained as rival PMs jostle for power amid talks in Cairo for future political process and elections.

 The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday evening that Egypt is following with concern the current developments in Tripoli, calling for the restoration and  calm in the country.“We stress once again the need to maintain calm in Libya...

Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General on Libya Stephanie Williams said she was pleased by the encouraging progress made over the past two days between members of the Joint House of Representatives (HoR) and High State Council (HSC) Co...

All sides involved in the unrest shaking conflict-torn Libya must work together towards finding a political solution and refrain from violence, the French foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

TRIPOLI: The capital of war-battered Libya was rocked by fighting between backers of two rival administrations for several hours Tuesday, threatening renewed chaos in the oil-rich North African country.The side backed by an eastern-based mi...

Libyan prime minister-designate Fathi Bashagha was forced out of the capital Tripoli on Tuesday by armed militias backed by current interim Prime Minister Adbdul Hamid Dbeibah, who refuses to step down and cede power as a significant amount...

A Libyan militia fighter was killed in clashes in Tripoli on Tuesday as clashes broke out in the capital forcing the prime minister appointed by parliament, Fathi Bashagha, to leave the city.Bashagha's authority is di...

Bashagha entered Tripoli with some support but was met by opposition from forces aligned with UN-recognised PM Dbeibeh.

Author: AFPID: 1652766022149942300Tue, 2022-05-17 05:32TRIPOLI: Libya’s parliament-appointed prime minister Fathi Bashagha left the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, his office said, hours after his attempt to enter the city led to clashes betw...

Clashes erupted in Libya's capital on Tuesday as the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, arrived to try to take control of the government from a rival administration that has refused to cede power.Bas...

Clashes erupted in Libya's capital on Tuesday as the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, arrived to try to take control of the government from a rival administration that has refused to cede power.

Mon, 2022-05-16 17:23CAIRO: The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has urged rival Libyan officials meeting in Cairo to “seize the opportunity of their presence together during this round of talks to address issues.”The ministry said it was awa...

TUNIS: The Tunisian navy said Saturday it rescued 81 migrants, one of them a woman, who had set out for Europe from Libya on a barely seaworthy vessel.The boat, which had been damaged, was boarded around six kilometres (four miles) off Tuni...

What many Libyans want is democracy and stability. What they have is oil. Can the U.S. play the role of mediator, or has war in Ukraine made its motives suspect?

Libya is planning to push a key offshore oil and gas project led by Italian Eni and Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) in a move that could shift some oil capabilities away from the onshore arena, where political battles for control have le...

Libya’s oilfields are expected to reopen soon, after militias have agreed to lift the siege on oil facilities, Parliament-backed Libyan Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha, who was elected in February, said on Twitter late on Tuesday. The efforts...

Libya's parliament wants the government it has appointed under Fathi Bashagha to be based for now in Sirte, it said on Tuesday, amid a stalemate over control of the capital Tripoli where another administration refuses t...

Libya's eastern-based parliament agreed in a vote on Tuesday that the government it appointed this year under Fathi Bashagha should start working in the central city of Sirte, the chamber's spokesman said.

Libya expects to open all its oil loading terminals after it sets up a mechanism for a fair distribution of the country’s oil revenues among the regions, Parliament Speaker Aqila Saleh told U.S. ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya, Richar...

Libya’s Zueitina port has received its first oil tanker after temporarily lifting force majeure last week to free up storage space.  While Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) did not issue a statement, NOC sources told LIbyan media that the...

Author: Tue, 2022-05-03 23:11TRIPOLI: On a medical ship off the Italian coast, rescued migrants are coloring in a map of Africa, where many started their perilous journeys toward Europe.The countries are brightly colored in yellow, gre...

On a medical ship off the Italian coast, rescued migrants are colouring in a map of Africa, where many started their perilous journeys toward Europe.The countries are brightly coloured in yellow, green, purple and red.Libya however, a co...

Force majeure in Libya and under-production in Nigeria have led to a much shorter increase in OPEC production for the month of April than was called for by the cartel’s supply agreement.  According to a Reuters survey, OPEC produced 28.58 m...

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) of Libya has temporarily lifted a force majeure it imposed on the Zueitina oil export terminal last month in a bid to reduce oil inventories and free up storage space. “With the efforts of the loyal people...