Under new general, Russia’s Wagner makes deeper inroads into Libya | Politics News
With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach…
With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach…
Libya’s Interior Minister Imad Trabelsi says the groups will leave capital after 10 people were killed over the weekend. Armed groups in Tripoli have agreed…
Much of Libya is bone-dry desert but one Mediterranean coastal town is suffering the opposite problem – its houses and fields have been inundated by…
Mediterranean Sea - An overcrowded wooden boat carrying 126 refugees and migrants drifts in the central Mediterranean. In the cramped space below deck, men huddle…
Mediterranean Sea – In the pitch-black hours of early Thursday morning, the Humanity 1 rescue ship approached a sky-blue wooden boat in distress in the…
Libya had been under the rule of the Ottoman Empire since the middle of the sixteenth century. Following the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, Libya became…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, International Organization for Migration’s Libya office quotes survivors as saying the boat was carrying about 86 people. At least 61 refugees and…
When parliamentary and presidential elections were announced in Libya for December 2021, prominent political activist Hanan al-Faidy, 46, immediately registered her candidacy for parliament in…
Bani Walid, Libya – Salem Doma never imagined that, after escaping government oppression at home in Eritrea, his greatest hardship still lay ahead, in the…
Often, in the middle of the night, Khadijah can hear screaming. It could be the woman in the classroom next door, who has refused to…
BRUSSELS — The Kremlin raked in an extra €1 billion for its war effort this year after Russia’s largest private oil firm exploited loopholes in…
Russia is moving to expand its military presence in eastern Libya, a plan that could lead to a naval base, giving it a significant foothold…
Among Arab political scientists and politicians, much as in the circles of Middle East experts across the world, the political processes in a region that…
Of all the things he’s found in the blue Mediterranean waters of Derna, the many bodies of children with vacant eye sockets and protruding bones…
Russian leader says grenade fragments found in bodies of those killed in jet crash where Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin died. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested…
Video posted by Sea-Watch International shows Libyan coast guard crashing into a dinghy with dozens of migrants on board. Rescue group Sea-Watch International has condemned…
UN refugee agency says ‘no end in sight’ to the lives lost in Mediterranean and on land routes to sea departure points. More than 2,500…
“At 3am I heard a sound, it was like the sound of an engine … I went outside and there was someone coming towards me,…
Kremlin spokesperson confirms meeting, saying the two men discussed the situation in Libya and wider region. Renegade general Khalifa Haftar, whose forces dominate eastern Libya,…
A mass fire in Iraq, Saudi’s foreign policy moves, surviving Libya’s floods post-ISIL–here’s the Middle East this week. A fire engulfs a wedding hall in…