Libya News

The Security Council today extended for another year the United Nations mission assisting Libya, as preparations in the North African country turn to upcoming parliamentary elections due to be held in June.

Libya's Zawiya refinery has been facing some "technical problems" but there is no issue with fuel supplies, state news agency LANA said on Sunday, citing an oil official.

Libyan authorities released on Saturday night 60 Egyptians who were detained in Tripoli on Friday to check the official documents allowing them to stay in Libya.

Libya's ousted prime minister gave his first interview since he left the country, saying in the televised appearance aired Saturday that he doesn't recognize parliament's dismissal of him and will contest the decision he called invalid.

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, then Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks to the media during a press conference in Rabat, Morocco.

Libyan rebels controlling three oil export ports said on Saturday they were ready to negotiate with the government over ending their six-month blockade if Tripoli abandoned plans for a military offensive.

Libya should be a success story. Its small, mostly urban population sits on vast oil wealth, and it is free of the quixotic repression of former leader Muammar Qaddafi.

As a onetime foreign correspondent who wrote from places like Northern Ireland, Iran, Pakistan, India, Vietnam and the Philippines, I see the riots in Cairo, the assassination in Benghazi and the friction in U.S-Israeli relations as part of one picture: a portrait of the Middle Eastern world preparing for war between Iran and Israel.

Libya's state oil company on Friday declared force majeure for the Hariga oil export port in eastern Libya, which has been blocked by protesters since August.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Badr Abdel-Atti said on Friday that men in military uniform took the 70 from their homes in Tripoli.

A newly painted version of a picture that for Palestinians has come to symbolize their struggle for statehood has been unveiled in Dubai many years after the original was believed to have been destroyed in a U.S. air strike on Libya.

The Libyan parliamentary decision to oust Prime Minister Ali Zidan this week not only marks the demise of his government after 16 months but also renews questions among some Libyans about whether democracy is the best form of government for their nation.

Date, time, time zone for call: Thursday, March 27, 2014; 10:00 a.m. EDT Brief Description of call: The second in a series of monthly calls, Ambassador Jones and Embassy Tripoli officers will provide an overview and update on security and defense issues in Libya and potential opportunities and challenges for U.S. companies interested in this ... (more)

Libya has reported its first outbreak ofHighly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 on a farm in the port city ofTubruq near the Egyptian border, according toDr Abdunaser Dayhum, Director General, National Centre of Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal & Marine Wealth , Zawia, Libya and published in a World Organization of Animal Health ... (more)

Asante Kotoko have constituted a three-man body to look into circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Yahaya Mohammed from camp before engaging BYC last month in the CAF Champions League.

"OIL IS our strength", declares a billboard campaign launched by Libya's oil ministry.

North Korea had nothing to do with a tanker which left Libya with an oil shipment in defiance of the government, a Pyongyang official has said.

Ousted PM left Libya on way to 'another European country' By Jomana Karadsheh and Steve Almasy, CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: State media in North Korea says temporary registry for tanker has been canceled Acting PM says predecessor free to leave, return for legal proceedings Abdullah al-Thinni says Libyan navy tracked oil tanker after it got through ... (more)

The prospect of a deal between Libya's eastern rebels and the country's central government is diminishing after the breakaway region shipped its first cargo of crude oil.