Tag: Haftar

Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu met Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian media reported, signalling Kremlin support ahead of...

Eastern Libyan authorities resumed an investigation into the unexplained killing of a top rebel commander in the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi,...

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, a key figure in the future of the troubled North African country, supports plans for national elections in...

On the front lines of their campaign to take the coastal city Derna, forces under Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar say they face...

Escalating conflict in Derna is having a devastating impact on civilians, with humanitarian workers denied access to deliver lifesaving assistance, the United...

Forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar engaged in fierce clashes around Derna, as two soldiers were killed in a car bomb...

Forces of Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar attacked opposition targets in Derna using aircraft and artillery, taking a wheat silo and villages on...

Libyan army commander Khalifa Haftar announced the start of military operations to "liberate" the city of Derna after his forces clashed with...

A lawsuit has been filed in France against Libyan army commander Khalifa Haftar alleging torture and barbarism, the plaintiff's French lawyer, Rachel...

Khalifa Haftar, the military commander dominating eastern Libya, will return to Benghazi today, a spokesman said, following medical treatment in Paris. Haftar...

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar is being treated in Paris after feeling unwell during a foreign tour and is expected to return to...

A Libyan military spokesman declined to address reports that key coalition military commander Khalifa Haftar was in Paris for medical treatment. Ahmed al-Mismari,...

Uncertainty over the status of a Libyan commander wanted by the International Criminal Court caused a rift between military leaders who detained...

Eastern Libyan forces expelled Islamist fighters from one of their last strongholds in the country's second-largest city Benghazi, military officials said. The battle...

The United Nations on Tuesday began a new push to stabilise Libya by getting rival factions to revise the stalled peace plan...

East Libyan forces said they launched air strikes on Islamic State fighters after the militants made incursions south and east of their...

France's foreign minister said he would head to Libya "very soon" to push warring parties to support a peace roadmap tentatively agreed...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson met Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar during a visit to Benghazi and urged him to stick to a...

At least nine security force members loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar and two civilians were killed by suspected Islamic State militants...

Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar was due in Moscow on Saturday ahead of a meeting with Russia's foreign minister, RIA news agency...

Residents of Derna in east Libya face critical shortages after Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) tightened its longstanding siege around the...

Standing alongside French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris last week, Khalifa Haftar, the most powerful military leader in eastern Libya, smiled when...

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the divided country's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar committed to a conditional ceasefire and to work towards...

Buoyed by the end of a long military campaign in Benghazi and new signs of foreign support, Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar has...

Clashes between rival Libyan factions east of Tripoli extended into a second day, keeping the coastal road shut and preventing residents returning...

Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar said his forces had taken full control of Libya's second city Benghazi from rival armed groups after...

East Libyan forces battled to advance into the last area of Benghazi controlled by their opponents on Tuesday, clearing mines and roadblocks...

Emirati assistance violating a UN arms embargo significantly boosted air power for forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, a report by...

Libyan forces loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar have taken the strategic military base of Jufra after rival factions withdrew. The move consolidates...

A brigade loyal to east Libyan forces said they had taken full control of an air base in southern Libya on Thursday...

The US ambassador to Libya pledged Washington's support for its UN-backed government and urged rival factions to avoid civil war, during the...

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar staged a large military parade for the third anniversary of his campaign to control Benghazi, as his troops...

Rival Libyan camps issued separate statements promising to calm tensions in southern Libya and fight terrorism, but offering no shared way forward...

Forces aligned with the UN-backed government in Tripoli said three of their men were killed in air raids against a desert air...

The head of US forces in Africa has told reporters there was an "undeniable" link between Russia and powerful Libyan commander Khalifa...

Fierce clashes resumed on Monday at a tower block complex in south-west Benghazi where forces loyal to Libya's eastern government have been...

Libyan factions have tentatively agreed on an Egyptian-brokered roadmap to heal divisions, Egypt said, though the failure to engineer a meeting between...

Five East Libyan force soldiers were killed in clashes with Islamist-led rivals holed up on the edge of a recently recaptured district...

A visit to a Russian aircraft carrier by Libya's Khalifa Haftar has given the eastern–based commander a symbolic boost while signalling Moscow's...

Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar was given a tour of a Russian aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, Russian media...

Allies of Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, the dominant figure in the divided country's east, have welcomed Donald Trump's victory in the US...

Clashes between irregular forces of a renegade general and Islamists erupted in Libya's eastern Benghazi city on Wednesday, killing at least five...