NATO wants to support European operation against human trafficking in the Mediterranean. This requires unanimous support, said US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday in Brussels after meeting with his NATO counterparts. However, a decision has not yet been taken.
Safia Farkash, widow of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (1922-2011), allowed a number of grandchildren back to Libya. The authorities in Tripoli have given her permission to do so, reported Wednesday the Spanish news agency Europa Press according to Libyan media.
One of the three governments in the chaotic Libya throws at it now appears the towel in the ring. The government in the capital Tripoli is dominated by Islamists lift themselves up, according to a statement distributed Tuesday by the Ministry of Justice in Tripoli.
The unity government supported by the UN Libya has traveled to Tripoli and sits there for the time being stuck on a naval base. According to German media immediately after the arrival of the government of Fayez Serraj fighting erupted in the Libyan capital.
US warplanes on Friday west of the Libyan capital Tripoli bombing run. The target of the attack would have been a Tunisian IS-terrorist, who helped plan the attacks in Tunisia last year.
Two rival governments in Libya on Tuesday in neighboring Tunisia formed together a government team. The intention is that they now work together, especially against the advancing jihadists in Libya which themselves a part of the Islamic State (IS) have been declared.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack on a training camp of the Libyan police., Killing at least 47 people dead. The attack was a truck packed with explosives used. The attack was about 150 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli, in the coastal town of Zliten.
In an attack involving a lorry packed with explosives was used, Thursday in Libya approximately fifty people were killed in a military training center.
A Libyan was arrested for his role in the murder of the British policewoman Yvonne Fletcher in 1984. This is a British police officer Richard Walton Thursday. It is about a man in his fifties who has been arrested in southeast England. He would also have money laundered. Previously arrested two Libyans.
At least sixteen people have been killed Wednesday by a shooting in the Libyan city of Benghazi. According to a statement of the army the deaths occurred during a heavy battle between the official armed forces and extremists of Islamic State.
Two Serbian embassy employees kidnapped Sunday in the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha. According to the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refers to the press- attaché and his driver.
At least twelve people have been killed Tuesday by a helicopter crashed west of the Libyan capital Tripoli. That communicated by the authorities in Tripoli.
The internationally recognized Libya's parliament approved the proposal of the United Nations to form a unity government Monday rejected . The parliament , seated in the east of the country , wants to continue with the UN-sponsored peace talks with the rival government in the capital Tripoli . The UN had proposed a unity government to end the war in the North African country , accompanied by six potential candidates for key positions.
The former spy chief of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi , Abdullah al- Senussi , one of the two new suspects in the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. That is what the government in Tripoli reported Friday. The other man is Mohammed Abu Ejaila . Nothing is yet known about him .
