Fayez Al Sarraj

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A woman at the detention centre for mainly African migrants that was hit by an air strike in the Tajoura suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Photograph: Reuters/Ismail Zitouny
Libya’s intertwined crises of migrants and civil war rage on

Libya has not, for some time, been a place of safety. Yet for the EU, unwilling to welcome those fleeing Africa, there has been only one option for de(...)

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini: said ministers had made it clear that the International Atomic Energy Agency was the only body that could legitimately verify Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal. Photograph: EPA
EU calls on US to show restraint over Iran

The US needs to exercise “maximum restraint” to avoid escalating its dispute with Iran over the nuclear deal, EU foreign ministers in Brussels  t(...)

A migrant woman reacts inside the Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency detention centre in Tajoura, Libya after it was hit by shrapnel from an air strike. Photograph: Hani Amara/Reuters
Migrants in line of fire as battle to take Tripoli rages on

An air strike hit a migrant detention centre in eastern Tripoli on Tuesday night, as the battle for Libya’s capital city continues to rage. Witnesses(...)

Members of rebel commander Khalifa Hafter’s Libyan National Army head out of Benghazi to reinforce troops advancing towards Tripoli, on April 7th. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters
UN warns western powers against backing Libyan rebel commander
  • Africa
  • April 29, 2019, 16:01

The UN envoy for Libya has made his strongest attack yet on the military strongman Khalifa Haftar as his forces intensify their assault on the capital(...)

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres meeting Gen Khalifa Haftar: 'I reiterate that there is no military solution for the Libyan crisis, only a political one,' said Mr Guterres earlier this month. File photograph: LNA War Information Division
Irish Times view on unrest in Libya

Libya, the large, strategic, oil-rich but fragmented country on the south shore of the Mediterranean has once again become the cockpit for internation(...)

Leader of the Libyan National Army General Khalifa Haftar. A spokesman for the LNA said 103 of those killed in the attack at the air base were LNA troops. Photograph: Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters
Death toll at Libya air base rises to ‘more than 140’

A spokesman for east Libyan armed forces said on Friday that as many as 141 people had been killed a day earlier in an attack on a southern air base. (...)

Donald Tusk: The European Council president has written that “worrying declarations by the new American administration all make our future highly unpredictable”. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
Donald Trump identified as major threat to European stability

Theresa May will brief EU leaders on Friday about her meeting with Donald Trump, and urge Nato members to fulfil their commitment to spend 2 per cent (...)