Libya

YemenExtra The Libyan army that follows Haftar, backed by Emirati forces, captured Arab recruits, including Yemenis affiliated with the Islah Party, who were drawn into the Libyan war form Turkey to join the GNA forces. Libyan activists…

The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received on Saturday Chief Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives Aguila Saleh for a tripartite summit on…

YemenExtra M.A. Fierce fighting forced the closure of the Libyan capital’s only civilian airport on Monday, officials said, after a militia in charge of security there said it had been attacked. The Facebook page of Mitiga…

The release of the former leader’s son — another nail in the coffin of the 2011 Arab uprisings – could have far-reaching results   By Abdel Bari Atwan The release last week of Saif-al-Islam al-Gaddafi had a particular symbolic…

YemenExtra About 10,000 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya over the previous four days but at least 54 others died, Libyan and Italian officials said on Saturday. On Saturday, the Tunisian army also rescued 126 migrants from…

YemenExtra M.A. Russia is worried by the outbreak of violence in Libya and views it as a deliberate provocation intended to disrupt the recent agreements between the government and the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA), the…