Libyan Civil War

Libya's new caretaker Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah took office on Monday after being elected to lead the war - torn country's transition to elections in December after years of chaos and division. The North African nation came into conflict after dictator Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in a NATO uprising in 2011, which resulted in several forces competing for power. A UN-supervised process aims to unite the country and build on a ceasefire in October between rival administrations in…

"We applaud the Libyan people for their determination to restore unity in their country," the foreign ministers of France, Germany, the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom said in a joint statement on Thursday. And they reiterated their call to "withdraw all foreign warriors and mercenaries from all over Libya." "This result is a fundamental step towards the unification of Libyan institutions and a comprehensive political solution to a crisis that has tested Libya and its people," the joint…

The Arab states and the United States welcomed recent developments in war-torn Libya, especially the vote of confidence that the country's newly elected Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh received on Wednesday. In a statement, Qatar's Foreign Ministry welcomed the confidence of the national unity government led by Dbeibeh and promised to support the new government "to achieve the ambitions of the fraternal Libyan people for development, stability and prosperity." The oil-rich Gulf country expressed…

Crowds of Libyan parliamentarians from both sides of the divided country arrived in the coastal city of Sirte, as Libya's divided parliament is scheduled to meet for a vote of confidence in the new caretaker government under Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Monday. The Riksdag has been divided - like most state institutions - since shortly after it was elected in 2014, when Libya broke between warring factions in the east and west. It is meeting this week to discuss confidence in a government…

Libya's caretaker Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Thursday presented his proposal to the new government for parliamentary approval in an attempt to unite the country's divided institutions, the prime minister's office said. "In accordance with the Roadmap to the Political Agreement ... (Dbeibah), the Speaker submitted to Parliament the Parliament's proposals for portfolio," the Office said in a statement. The names of Dbeibah's proposed government were not made public, but the House of…

Libya's Tripoli - based parliament on Wednesday stated that the province where confidence in the newly elected government of national unity (GNU) under Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah will be kept must get rid of mercenaries and foreign forces. Parliament's statement comes after the UN mandate in Libya proposed that the vote be held in the coastal province of Sirte. Similarly, Aquila Saleh, Speaker of the Tobruk-based parliament, last week called on the Assembly to meet in Sirte on March 8 to vote…

The advance team for a UN observer mission has arrived in Libya, which after a decade of conflict and chaos plans to hold elections in December, informed sources said on Wednesday. The group of about ten UN employees flew into the capital Tripoli on Tuesday to monitor a ceasefire between the country's two rival armed factions. The unarmed observer team also has the task of verifying the departure of thousands of mercenaries and foreign fighters who have been deployed in the oil-rich North African…

Libya's newly elected interim government on Tuesday called on UN experts to publish a report accusing them of buying votes during world - led peace talks. A UN panel had in a confidential report, seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Sunday, stated that at least three participants were offered bribes of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The administration of the caretaker Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah on Tuesday issued a statement demanding that UN experts "publish their report on allegations of…

At least three participants were bribed to vote for the newly elected caretaker Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah at UN-led peace talks in Libya, experts from the world body found in a report to the Security Council, seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Sunday. Dbeibah was selected earlier this month during Libya's Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF), which began in Tunisia in November, the UN's latest attempt to save the country from a decade of conflict and fragmentation. In a report to be submitted to…

The Libyan interim government presented a new vision for the war-torn country when the appointed prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, on Thursday proposed a structure in line with the UN roadmap. Dbeibah was selected earlier this month in a UN-sponsored dialogue between Libya, the latest internationally supported attempt to save the country from a decade of conflict and fragmented political fiefdoms. But it was unclear how far progress has been made towards appointing a cabinet. "Today we have…