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According to the Gaddafi family lawyer, it has been confirmed that Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, is planning a political comeback in Libya. Saif Gaddafi was released from detention in July earlier this year and is reported to be moving around Libya. It is alleged that he …

(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) The US Department of State is “watching very carefully” for any regrouping of ISIS militants outside of Sirte. The terrorist group moved into Sirte, which had a population of 80,000, in 2015 and managed to establish a stronghold in the coastal city. ISIS had aims …

(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) France will be providing the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) with its full support in its fight to combat militants. “There are still some terrorist groups in Libya which must be hunted down and neutralized,” said President Francois Hollande after meeting the Libyan Prime …

(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) Clashes between rival militias broke out over the weekend over the control of Libya’s main crude oil ports, causing an oil shipment to be delayed, said a Libyan official. Libya’s fragile state has left it exposed to a constant stream of unexpected attacks, jeopardizing whatever …

(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) ISIS has survived in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq even though a range of anti-ISIS forces have been fighting them for over two years to no end. Such forces include the Iraqi army, Kurdish and sectarian militias and Western armies such as the …

(Republished from the Huffington Post) by: Aly Abuzaakouk At the onset of the Libyan Revolution in February 2011, Colonel (General) Khalifa Haftar, who had been living comfortably in exile in suburban Virginia for two decades, returned to Libya with the blessing of the United States to finally get vengeance against Muammar …

(Author: Libyan Gazette Editorial Staff) Libya’s oil output is quickly grinding to a halt due to the standoff between the National Oil Corporation (NOC), the official institution based in Tripoli, and the oil company based in Tobruk at the Marsa al-Hariga port. Production from the Messla and Sarir oil fields, …