Libya has been wracked by chaos since a NATO-backed uprising toppled Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. Over the past decade, the oil-rich nation had been split between a government in the east, backed by powerful commander Khalifa Hifter, and a UN-supported administration in Tripoli, aided by western-based Libyan militias.
Gadhafi’s son was captured by fighters in the town of Zintan late in 2011, the year when a popular uprising, backed by the NATO, toppled his father after more than 40 years in power. Moammar Gadhafi was killed in October 2011 amid the ensuing fighting that would turn into a civil war.
European Union (EU) has allocated more than USD 1.6 billion for the protection and education of children in Libya.
The programme, which is expected to run up to Dec 31, 2022, will continue to ensure that community-based child protection, psychosocial, and reintegration services are available for boys and girls, the statement said on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.
The corona curfew will last for two weeks from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
The motorcade of the interior minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed government came under attack on Sunday in the capital, Tripoli, officials said. Armed men opened fire at Fathi Bashagha’s motorcade on a highway in Tripoli, wounding at least one of his guards, said Amin al-Hashmi, a spokesman for the Tripoli-based Health Ministry.
On Wednesday, Interior Minister of the UN-backed government Fathi Bashagha had confirmed the discovery of the mass graves in Tarhuna. But he did not specify the exact number of graves.
Attempts to broker ceasefire between Libyan Government and rebels have not yielded results as rebel commander Khalifa Haftar left Moscow without signing the deal. Russia and Turkey were mediating between Libyan Government and rebels for a deal to establish a ceasefire. Iran's Press TV reported that General Khalifa Haftar left Moscow earlier on Tuesday.
At least 28 killed and about 37 injured after an airstrike slammed into a military academy in Libya’s capital, Tripoli on Saturday. According to the Libyan health authorities, most of them students. The wounded people were taken to nearby hospitals for urgent treatment.
Libya's Immigration Control Department in the eastern city of Benghazi announced the deportation of 62 illegal immigrants to Chad and Sudan
In a statement, the U.N.-supported government blamed the self-styled Libyan National Army, led by commander Khalifa Hifter, for the airstrike. Libya is split between two warring governments and Hifter's forces control much of the country's east and south.
Portugal will take 10 migrants while Ireland and Romania have said they will take five migrants each, the sources said.
"Joint forces of military battalions and security elements chased a number of remnants of the terrorists, who were hiding in the uninhabited site west of Tazerbu," it said on Saturday.
Ain Zara since Monday has been witnessing violent clashes between the government forces and the so-called seventh brigade militias from the nearby city of Tarhuna.
The explosion took place just before Friday prayers at the Saad Ibn Ibada mosque located between Benghazi's al-Majouri and Berka districts, said Motaz Agouri, an official from Benghazi security directorate's media office.
Local health official Hani Belras Ali said at least 27 people died had died so far and 32 were wounded. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also said Egypt’s ongoing arms buildup was designed in part to equip the country to deal with terrorism and redress the “strategic imbalance” in the region created by conflict.
US special operations forces have captured a militant who was instrumental in the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
Seif al-Islam, the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, has been released after more than five years in detention, his captors said on Saturday.
The Egyptian army has launched intensive airstrikes against what it said were militant training bases in Libya after suspected Islamic State militants ambushed a bus that killed 28 Coptic Christians south of Cairo.
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