Libyan foreign minister Najla Mangoush announces a "very modest start" to the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country following a permanent ceasefire of the Second Libyan Civil War. 2021-10-3
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says Khalifa Haftar supports a ceasefire starting Monday, June 8, with the condition that all "foreign mercenaries leave Libyan territory". 2020-06-6
Turkish-backed GNA forces seize the towns of Badr and Tiji near the Tunisian border. 2020-05-19
In a televised address, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar says his Libyan National Army is accepting a "popular mandate" to rule the country, seemingly declaring himself the ruler of Libya and dismissing the House of Representatives. An adviser to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord says Haftar has exposed himself as an authoritarian. 2020-04-27
Tunisia's Ministry of Defence says that a pilot is arrested after a damaged Libyan warplane, reported to be a L-39 Albatros, makes an emergency landing on a road near the southern town of Beni Khadash. 2019-07-22
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the LNA visits Cairo for a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has supported the LNA in its military operation against the rival GNA in Tripoli. 2019-04-14
The Libyan National Army claims to have launched airstrikes destroying dozens of vehicles in Sadada allegedly used by Al-Qaeda linked militants. 2018-04-22
At least three French Armed Forces soldiers are killed after their helicopter is shot down near the city of Benghazi, Libya. The soldiers were killed while carrying out "dangerous intelligence operations", according to French President François Hollande. 2016-07-20
The United Nations-backed Libyan Presidential Council arrives in Tripoli despite warnings by hardliners opposed to any unity government that they will attempt to keep them out of the city. 2016-03-30