The Latest Breaking News from Tripoli

Amid unique fanfare, dozens of youths hardly able to believe that they have a space to skate gathered at the Tripoli Entertainment Space in the city center of the Libyan capital. Make Life Skate Life, an NGO that builds free skateparks around the world, played a role in its construction,…

The Wagner Group, a private Russian military security contractor, has used banned landmines and booby traps near Tripoli, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. “New information from Libyan agencies and demining groups links the Wagner Group to the use of banned landmines and booby traps in Libya in 2019-2020,”…

Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said the Wagner Group added to the “deadly legacy” of mines and booby traps scattered across Tripoli’s suburbs

Human Rights Watch has called for the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of the use of landmines in 2019 by Russian paramilitaries fighting in Libya

U.N. experts say in a new report that Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which they say has violated international law

One of Libya’s rival prime ministers has told The Associated Press that he has no immediate plans to rule from the capital of Tripoli, after his attempted move there last week sparked clashes and fears of a return to widespread civil strife

Chairman of Libya’s National Oil Company (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla held talks with General Manager of Eni North Africa Antonio Bolsari in Tripoli on Wednesday. Sanalla’s Advisor Bashir Grea, the General Manager of Legal Affairs Dr. Kalfallah Ibrahim and the Project and Maintenance Manager Najmi Karim attended the meeting. Several topics…

Ramy Finge spent two years braving tear gas and rubber bullets, sometimes trying to scale the cement walls surrounding Lebanon’s parliament during anti-government protests. Soon he'll be able to walk in through the front door.

A Russian delegation has discussed with Libyan officials arrangements for reopening the Russian embassy in Tripoli. The Libyan Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Consular Affairs, Murad Ahmeima, received a delegation from the Russian Foreign Ministry headed by Director of the Planning Department Haidar Aghanid.…

Lebanon's elections brought into parliament 13 new independent lawmakers who hail from the movement of protests against the country's traditional political factions

Paris says all parties in Libya must work together to end the cycle of violence that has divided the country and decimated the economy.