Turkey has refused French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for the foreign powers to remove their forces from Libya, describing it as a “wrong” solution ahead of the Libyan presidential and parliamentary elections.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on all Libyan parties to take part in presidential and legislative elections, which are aimed at restoring peace and stability to the North African country.
The Libyan transitional government has released Saadi Gaddafi, a son of the former Ruler Muammar Gaddafi, after seven years of imprisonment, authorities said.
Delegates from Libya have launched a new round of UN-led talks aiming to reach a compromise ahead of planned elections in December.
At least 57 migrants drowned after their boat sank off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday, the latest tragedy on the dangerous Mediterranean Sea crossing to Europe.
Charity organizations have posted photographs of the bodies of babies and toddlers having washed up on a beach in Libya after a shipwreck, highlighting the human toll of the refugee crisis at Europe’s doorstep.
Armed men have attacked a hotel employed as a headquarters by Libya’s Presidential Council in the capital Tripoli.
A broad grouping of countries and organizations has demanded the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all foreign forces from Libya.
Several years into a battle for power in Libya, authorities in the western part have now moved toward reconciliation by realeasing 120 captured fighters loyal to the eastern-based renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar.
Libya's new interim government has demanded the "immediate" withdrawal of all foreign mercenaries amid efforts to end a decade of violence in the North African country.