The Latest Breaking News from Libya

Tensions between Greece and Turkey are spreading across the Mediterranean from Libya to the divided island of Cyprus. The risk of a confrontation is threatening to draw in fellow Nato allies.

The Ministry of the Interior of Libya’s interim unity government, headed by Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, said that its Undersecretary for District Affairs, Bashir al-Amin, held talks on Thursday with Türkiye’s ambassador to Libya Kenan Yilmaz. They discussed a number of common security issues between the Libyan and Turkish interior ministries, as…

Libya's Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) signed a series of preliminary economic agreements with Türkiye on Monday that included potential energy exploration in maritime areas, but Libya's eastern-based parliament rejected the move. Speaking at a ceremony in Tripoli, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush…

Tripoli (AFP) - Turkey's foreign minister signed a deal in Libya's capital Monday allowing for oil and gas exploration in Libya's Mediterranean waters, three years after a maritime border deal that angered European nations.

Vice President of the Libyan Presidential Council Musa al-Koni reiterated the need to end centralization in the capital Tripoli. He said limiting the presence of state institutions in the capital “makes it a target to those eyeing power or wealth.” Koni has been promoting the idea for around a month…

Forty-two bodies have been found in a mass grave in the Libyan city of Sirte, an ex-stronghold of ISIS, the country's missing persons authority said Sunday. Exhumation teams unearthed "42 unidentified bodies" after following up reports of a "mass grave" at the site of a former school in Sirte, the…

The Libyan Crimes Watch (LCW) organization held the interim unity government, headed by Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, responsible for the civilian casualties in the recent clashes between armed groups at al-Zawiya city, west of Tripoli. It issued a statement on its official Facebook page, in which it called on the Attorney General…

US officials focused on the "management of Libya's oil revenues" in their meetings with interim Libyan unity government officials, headed by Abdel Hamid Dbeibeh and the governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL). A statement by the US embassy said that a delegation that included US Deputy Assistant Secretary…

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