Libya has been largely divided since the Nato-backed overthrow of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Eastern Libya is controlled by Haftar and his allies, and is backed by the United Arab ...

A man holds parrots as he visits Tripoli zoo, which recently reopened after a 17-year closure due to the civil war, in ...

From Libya to Yemen and Palestine to Sudan, the United Arab Emirates has built a regional network of militias, autocrats, and ...

Led by 46-year-old Belgacem Haftar, a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure programme in the east aims to erase decades of ...

Belgacem Haftar, son of eastern Libya's military chief Khalifa Haftar, touted in an interview with AFP what he called a push ...

On May 11, 2026, Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) signed a deal with UAE-based Trasta Energy, formally ending a dispute that dates back to the aftermath of Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow ...

Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, 47, faces 17 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes at Libya's Mitiga prison, where prosecutors allege he killed and raped prisoners — sometimes in front of ...

We have been here for four days,” says South African writer and academic Jessica Breakey in a voice note sent from the Libyan ...

Prosecutors painted Mitiga Prison as a system of rape, torture and enslavement. Defense lawyers answered with a sweeping ...

The "Industry Pioneers" Conference and Forum was held in Tripoli yesterday, the Tripoli Chamber of Commerce reports. The event was ...

The conference, to be held at the Rixos Hotel Tripoli under the theme “Financial Intelligence in the Era of Transformation”, ...

European-backed controls have reduced migrant crossings but left thousands detained in Libya’s opaque and often abusive ...