Libya Archives - Page 11 of 111

20Dec

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Libya, Turkey

Erdogan says Turkey won't be silent over mercenaries in Libya

MOSCOW/ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey will not stay silent over Russian-backed mercenaries supporting Khalifa Haftar in Libya, as Moscow voiced concerns over possible Turkish military deployment to Libya in support of Haftar's enemies. Turkey has backed Libya's internationally recognized government led by Fayez al-Serraj and the two sides signed a security agreement last month which could deepen military cooperation between them.ADVERTISING Turkey has already sent military supplies to Libya in violation of a United Nations arms embargo, according a report by U.N. experts seen by Reuters last month. It said Serraj's Government of National Accord (GNA) asked Turkey for help after Haftar received support from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Turkey had ...

12Dec

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Greece, Libya, Turkey

Libya Is Likely to Become a Proxy Battlefront Between Greece and Turkey

By Paul Antonopoulos Global Research, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has certainly opened up pandora’s box in Libya that is now difficult for him to close after he made a series of gross miscalculations and aggression against Greece. This has triggered a crisis all across the Eastern Mediterranean. With Libya in a state of war since the NATO-jihadist alliance removed and murdered long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, two prominent forces have emerged from the initial chaos, the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord in coalition with the Muslim Brotherhood who control the capital city of Tripoli, and the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by General Khalifa Haftar, who controls about 80% of the country and has the backing o...

1Dec

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Libya

Libyan inscriptions and the myth of linguistic minorities

By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Libyan inscriptions and the myth of linguistic minorities "promoted under Berber or Amazigh claims" In addition to the archaeological excavations and the nature of the ancient man through the skeletons discovered in North Africa, which followed the lack of a relationship between the ancient human components of North Africa and the linguistic minorities that some collect under the pretext of Amazigh add inscriptions known as Libyan, which confirms the absence of any connection to the languages that were widespread in North Africa and oral languages Historically known Berber and promoted today Adelogia alleged Amazigh, although this Amazigh there is not a single text or inscription confirms its existence in ancient North Africa and the branch of Afro-Asian lang...

15Aug

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Libya

Libya: 3 UN-recognised government troops killed

A Libyan fighter loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA) on 10 April 2019 [Mahmud TURKIA/AFP/Getty]August 2, 2019 at 3:16 pm Three military personnel were killed and another 14 injured in an air strike on forces of Libya’s UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) today. The air strike by East Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar targeted GNA forces in As-Saddadah area southeast of capital Tripoli, according to Mustafa Al-Majei, a GNA forces spokesman. Misrata Medical Centre confirmed the casualties in a statement shared on its Facebook page. This comes as GNA forces announced targeting Haftar forces in Tripoli’s southern area of Wadi Rabie. Since early April, forces loyal to Haftar launched a campaign to capture Tripoli from GNA forc...

11Aug

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'Unimaginable': Mediterranean shipwreck survivors 'sent to bombed Libyan detention centre'

By Natalie Huet Most of the survivors of the worst Mediterranean shipwreck so far this year have been transferred to a Libyan detention centre that was hit by a deadly airstrike this month, according to the UN refugee agency. The UNHCR says it's concerned about their safety and is calling for their release. Medecins Sans Frontieres told Euronews the move was "unimaginable". Up to 150 men, women and children are feared to have died on Thursday after a wooden boat capsized off the coast of Libya. More than 130 people were rescued by the Libyan coast guard and brought back to the mainland, near Tripoli. The UNHCR says 84 of those survivors have now been taken to Tajoura detention centre, a centre near the frontline of Libya's deadly civil war where at least 50 people were killed...

11Aug

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'Haftar's troops are criminals and thugs,' Libyan PM tells Euronews in exclusive interview

By Euronews Screenshot - Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj speaks to Euronews -CopyrightEuronews As the forces of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar were still trying to capture Libya's capital, Euronews' Anelise Borges spoke to Fayez al-Serraj, the Prime Minister of the UN-backed government. Speaking about Haftar's troops, al-Serraj said they were not the organised military outfit they claim to be. "They are criminal gangs, ideological groups, thugs and outlaws," al-Serraj told Borges. "We are defending the dream of all Libyans of establishing a civilian state. We will continue defending our dream, our capital, our homes, our people until this attack has been stopped and all the invading troops go back where they came from," al Serraj went on. Haftar's Libyan Nati...

30Jun

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General Haftar Is Trying to Trick Turkey into Overextending Itself in Libya

NOVANEWS By Andrew Korybko Global Research Libyan National Army leader General Haftar ordered his forces to attack Turkish ships and companies that he accused of helping the internationally recognized Government of National Accord, as well as to arrest Turkish citizens in the country, which is nothing short of an effort to trick Turkey into overextending itself by provoking it into “mission creep” so that it ends up trapped in the Libyan quagmire. *** The Libyan Civil War might be entering a new phase if the forces led by Libyan National Army (LNA) leader General Haftar do good on their leader’s threats to attack Turkish ships and companies that he accused of helping the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), a well as to arrest Turkish citizens in t...

5Jun

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Iraq, Libya, Syria, USA

On the clamour to repeat the disastrous Iraq and Libya interventions in Syria

NOVANEWS Nureddin Sabir, Editor, Redress Information & Analysis, writes: Despite the ongoing death and destruction that has followed Western military interventions in Iraq and Libya, the clamour for a repeat performance in Syria is gaining momentum, especially in Washington and London where Donald Trump and Theresa May have plenty of internal problems from which they wish to deflect attention. The proponents of military intervention in Syria should name one – only one – instance where such intervention in the Middle East has resulted in a good outcome for the people of the country targeted. Attacking Syria will achieve just one thing: helping the remnants of Islamic State group and other jihadist cutthroats such as Al-Qaeda, the Saudi-backed (if not created) Jaysh al-Islam (Army of ...

26May

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Libya

Libya: Haftar Calls for the People to Rebel in Tripoli

NOVANEWS Militia forces in Ain Zara, Tripoli, Libya April 28, 2019. | Photo: Reuters Militia from the U.N.-backed National Accord Government (GNA) continue to try to hold the city against Haftar forces. The Libyan National Army (LNA) commander, Khalifa Haftar, is trying to incite a revolt in Tripoli amid signs of popular agitation against the Tripoli-based National Accord Government (GNA), headed by Prime Minister Fayez Al-Serraj and backed by the United Nations. RELATED: Macron Seeks Meeting with Haftar to Reach Ceasefire in Libya The LNA says pro-GNA militias, which came from the city of Misrata, arrested about 180 Haftar supporters in Tripoli and held them captive. After this event, the LNA called on Tripoli's inhabitants "whose children are held...

3May

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Libya

ISIS just blew up the 842-year-old mosque where it announced its caliphate

NOVANEWS The al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, Iraq, was a cherished religious and cultural site. ISIS flattened it in seconds. By Jennifer Williams In June 2014, at the height of his power, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi stood in the pulpit of the iconic 12th-century al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, Iraq, and delivered a now-infamous sermon declaring the creation of a new ISIS “caliphate.” It was a hugely symbolic setting, meant to bolster Baghdadi’s claim to be the leader of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims and to broadcast to the world that ISIS was now a major force to be reckoned with. On Wednesday, ISIS blew up that same mosque as Iraqi forces closed in on the ancient complex as part of their final push to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city. It was a symbolic move of a very different...