International actors

On 18 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar received the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian...

On 16 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar officially visited Paris at the invitation of the Office...

On 15 January, Turkish media reported that the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office has launched a multi-faceted investigation, including technology,...

On 15 January, Major General Mahmoud Hamza, Director of the Military Intelligence Department and commander of the 444 Combat Brigade, made an...

On 13 January, Turkish media reported that a Cypriot flight attendant, who was part of the crew that brought the Libyan jet to Turkey before it...

On 10 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar arrived in Cairo on an official invitation from Egypt’s...

On 7 January, Chad’s Minister of Public Security and Immigration, Lieutenant General Ali Ahmad Aghabash, met in the capital N’Djamena with Libya’s...

Greek officials have said that 19,948 arrivals were confirmed via the so-called southern corridor from eastern Libya to southern Crete in 2025, a...

On 6 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar arrived in Jordan’s capital Amman following a formal...

On 30 December, nine Libyan truck drivers, residents of al-Jawf/Kufra in south-eastern Libya, were abducted in northern Chad near the desert road...

In late December, a Libyan National Army (LNA) delegation visited Amman to discuss new plans to train its officers during 2026.

The death of several of western Libya’s senior military leadership in an airplane crash in Turkey on 23 December shocked Libya, with the...

On 22 December, the Turkish parliament approved a motion extending the deployment mandate of the Turkish Armed Forces in Libya for an additional two...

On 22 December, Reuters published a report highlighting the key role of Kufra airport in becoming a conduit for supplies and fighters from the UAE...

On 20 December, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar visited the Egyptian frigate ENS Port Said (976) at the Benghazi Naval...

On 19 December, Greek authorities conducted one of the largest rescue operations recorded this year so far in the waters south of Crete. A heavily...

On 17 December, Pakistan's Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir arrived in Benghazi on an official visit, heading a high-level...

On 16 December, the sixth meeting of the joint Libyan-Italian Security Task Force on Security Affairs was held, in the presence of a number of...

On 14 December, the Turkish Presidency formally submitted a motion to Parliament for a 24-month extension of Turkish troops’ deployment in Libya....

There are reports of a new supply route to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, emerging from Libya, crossing Chad, and reaching Sudan. Satellite...

On 12 December, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex reported that in the first eleven months of 2025 there were just over 169,000...

On 9 December, US AFRICOM published a video about AFRICOM Commander Dagvin Anderson’s recent visit to Libya, saying they were ‘truly impressed by...

On 7 December, an EU delegation including Orlando, Commander of EUNAVFOR Med’s Operation Irini RADM Marco Casapieri, and the Head of EUBAM Libya Jan...

On 6 December, Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi participated in a round table organized by the International Organization for Migration in Geneva...

On 2 December, a US Military Command in Africa (AFRICOM) delegation met with Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi....

On 2 December, Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Khaled Haftar visited the 4th edition of the Egypt Defence Expo 2025...

On 1 December, PM and Minister of Defense Abdul Hameed Dabaiba met with the commander of the US Military Command in Africa (AFRICOM) Dagvin Anderson...

On 1 December, the NGO MV Louise Mitchell said that a patrol boat of the Libyan Coast Guard closely approached the Louise Michel vessel and fired...

On 1 December, Khaled Mohamed Ali al-Hishri was surrendered to the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC said that a hearing...

On 29 November, Saddam Haftar, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), held a phone conversation with Chadian President Mahamat...

On 27 November, the 7th Steering Committee of the EU-funded Support to Integrated Border and Migration Management in Libya project (SIBMMIL) took...

On 26 November, a detailed report by the Enact project warned of destablisation in Libya-Niger-Chad border triangle. The report identifies the...

On 25 November, the UN extended the arms embargo on Libya for another 6 months, with EUNAVFORMED Operation Irini being tasked to monitor it, by...

On 25 November 2025, International Criminal Court (ICC) Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan addressed the United Nations Security Council in New...

On 24 November, PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba received the Turkish Minister of Interior Ali Yerlikaya and his accompanying delegation, in the presence of...

On 20 November, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar met in Ankara with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan at the...

On 18 November, the 14th edition of the SHADE MED Conference took place in Rome. SHADE MED is a key forum of the EUNAVFOR MED Operation IRINI and...

On 14 November, Trabelsi participated in the ministerial conference of the European Union (EU), and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)...

On 13 November, the Libyan National Army's (LNA) Military Media Division said that the LNA’s General Command and the Chadian Army have established a...

On 11 November, Government of National Stability (GNS) Minister of Interior Essam Abu Zuriba welcomed the Belarusian Deputy Minister of Internal...

A report this week by Radio France Internationale (RFI) claimed that weapons used in the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) assault on the Sudanese city of...

On 6 November, the Government of National Unity (GNU) confirmed the release of Hannibal Qadhafi by Lebanese authorities, lifting the travel ban and...

On 5 November, 13 search and rescue organisations from Germany, France, Spain and Italy announced the creation of the Justice Fleet, whose mission...

On 3 November, the Government of National Unity (GNU) said that a high-level delegation visited Lebanon, where it was received by the Lebanese...

As of 3 November, Italy has recorded a total of 59,438 migrant arrivals since January of this year. Slightly fewer migrants (55,774) arrived during...

On 29 October, the NGO Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)) announced that they had received a letter from the Government of...

Reports indicate that Russian military flights between Hmeimim Air Base in Syria (previously Russia’s main operational hub in the Middle East) and...

On 22 October, Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Khaled Haftar arrived in Athens for an official working visit. He was...

On 21 October, Saddam Haftar was received by Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko at the Presidential Palace in Minsk as part of his official...

On 21 October, the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled that Italy failed to properly execute a request to arrest and surrender Osama Najim, aka...

On 18 October, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Notizie Geopolitiche, Government of National Stability (GNS) PM Osama Hammad sharply...

On 17 October, a Lebanese judge ordered the release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in exchange for USD 11 million...

On 16 October the European Commission announced the comprehensive ‘Pact for the Mediterranean,’ a strategic framework to deepen cooperation with...

On 16 October, human rights lawyers filed the names of some 120 European leaders - including French President Emmanuel Macron and former German...

On 15 October, Italy’s Chamber of Deputies has approved the renewal of the 2017 MoU with Libya on migration control, reinforcing cooperation to curb...

On 14 October, a joint delegation of Libyan officials from western and eastern Libya visited the HQ of Frontex - the European Border and Coast Guard...

On 14 October, Lieutenant General John Brennan, Deputy Commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), announced that Sirte will be a key training...

On 13 October, Human Rights Watch called for Italy to revoke the Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on migration cooperation which will renew...

On 12 October, the NGO Alarmphone said that it was in contact with people on a vessel in the Malta search and rescue (SAR) zone which said the...

On 12 October, South African media outlets reported that at least four Gazelle helicopters have been ‘quietly’ exported from Lanseria International...

On 11 October, international media outlets reported that a joint delegation of migration officials from Tripoli and Benghazi will be in Europe from...

On 8 October, the Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights voiced deep concern over the growing hate speech, violence and arbitrary arrests targeting...

On 8 October, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press conference that there is ‘growing evidence’ alleging security...

After the crew of Libya’s Omar al-Mukhtar vessel was seized by the Israeli forces when they intercepted a flotilla of vessels trying to deliver...

On 7 October, EU Ambassador Nicola Orlando held an ‘in-depth exchange’ in Tripoli with Admiral Reda Issa, Commander of the Libyan Coast Guard. They...

On 6 October, the Government of National Unity (GNU) team involved in the Rome Process held a meeting with its Italian counterpart to discuss...

On 3 October, the Government of National Stability (GNS) Ministry of Foreign Affairs met with the Sudanese Consul General in Benghazi to discuss...

On 26 September, Politico reported that three Italian officials - Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and Cabinet...

On 26 September in the very early hours, the Search and Rescue (SAR) NGO Sea Watch said that the Libyan coast guard had fired live ammunition at its...

On 26 September, 30 Libyan maritime officials from Tripoli and Benghazi completed the first training delivered by EUNAVFOR Med’s Operation IRINI in...

On 25 September, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in jail, over an accusation of illegal...

On 20 September, Spanish media report that Customs at Algerciras port in Spain unloaded up to 10 vessels that were being transported by the...

On 18 September, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published video footage and photos appearing to categorically show (reportedly for the first...

On 18 September, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar arrived for an official visit in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. At the...

On 17 September, the EU Ambassador to Libya Nicola Orlando held a meeting with Mohammed Marhani, in his capacity as technical head of the Supreme...

On 16 September, the IOM said that 17,402 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya thus far in 2025, with 456 deaths and 420 people missing....

Many refugees and migrants have been killed or are missing following several shipwrecks off Libya over the last week. On 15 September, a vessel...

On 11 September, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani met with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, in Rome. They signed a cooperation agreement...

On 11 September, Belqasim Haftar, Director General of the Libyan Development and Reconstruction Fund (LDRF), received the head of the Italian...

On 11 September, the Italian Senate ratified the prisoner transfer agreement signed between Libya and Italy in Palermo on 29 September 2023. The...

On 6 September, Sudan filed a new complaint supported with evidence to the Security Council regarding the direct involvement of the United Arab...

On 6 September, Libya’s National Institution for Human Rights submitted a report to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing armed groups of...

On 5 September, the newly-appointed Chief of Staff of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khaled Haftar visited Moscow for the second time in a week,...

On 4 September, the Italian Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto received the Government of National Unity (GNU) Deputy Minister of Defense for...

On 4 September, the Berlin Process Security Working Group (SWG) co-chairs - SRSG Hanna Tetteh and the ambassadors of the African Union, France,...

On 2 September, according to Italian media reports, Ibrahim Dabaiba (the nephew and close advisor of PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba) and Saddam Haftar (the...

On 29 August, the newly-appointed Chief of Staff of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khaled Haftar arrived in Moscow for an official visit, his first...

On 29 August, Turkish diplomats and senior officers present in Tripoli reportedly started to mediate between the Government of National Unity (GNU)...

Spanish media has reported that on 27 August, the Liberian-flagged cargo ship Lila Mumbai, number 9253143, had been detained on suspicion of...

On 26 August, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar and House of Representatives...

On 25 August, SOS Mediterranee announced that one of its rescue ships, the Ocean Viking -- with its European crew members aboard -- was shot at with...

On 21 August, the Hellenic Navy completed the first round of a training for (eastern) Libyan coast guard officers, which was held at the NATO...

On 21 August, SRSG Hanna Tetteh gave her much-anticipated briefing to the UN Security Council (UNSC) in which she laid out a new political roadmap,...

On the evening of 21 August, the HQ of UNSMIL in Janzour was reportedly attacked with an SPG rocket while UN SRSG Hannah Tetteh was in the middle of...

On 17 August, the Government of National Unity's (GNU) General Authority for Telecommunications and Informatics issued a statement announcing the...

On 17 August, the Turkish naval vessel TCG Kinaliada docked at Tripoli port where Ambassador Güven Begec received a Turkish naval delegation, headed...

On 14 August, UN Special Representative Hanna Tetteh convened in Tunis with Libya’s 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) to take stock of the October...

On 8 August, the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to unseal the arrest warrant issued initially on 10 November...

On 7 August, Greek Migration Minister Athanasios Plevris warned in an interview with public broadcaster ERT that if migrant flows to Crete rebound,...

On 5 August, the Greek government delivered a note verbale to the UN Secretary General responding to the Libyan note of 20 June 2025, which was...