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Last Updated On: Dec 28 2020 02:11 Gmt+3 Egypt has decided to be more open to the Government of National Accord (GNA) headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, a move that carries a message of support to the current led by Interior Minister Fathi Bashaga and which rejects Turkish military escalation. Bashaga, who is close to the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Justice and Construction Party, visited Cairo last November. Following the withdrawal of the Libyan National Army (LNA) from Tripoli to Sirte, a split e...

CAIRO — Libya’s rival leaders kicked off a U.N.-brokered prisoner exchange, United Nations and Libyan officials said Saturday, which was part of a preliminary cease-fire agreement between the warring Libyan groups. The exchange of a first batch of prisoners, supervised by a joint military committee, took place Friday in the southwestern village of al-Shwayrif, according to the U.N. Support Mission in Libya, or UNSMIL. Libya is split between a U.N.-supported government in the capital, ...

Turkey warns that it will respond to any attack on its troops in Libya   Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar to General Khalifa Haftar that any attack against Turkish troops in the African country would lead to a military response   PHOTO/PRESIDENCIAL PRESS SERVICE via AP  -   The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the centre, accompanied by the Minister of Defence of Turkey, Hulusi Akar, second from the left, and the Chief of General Staff of Tu...

UN: Libya’s rivals swap prisoners, part of cease-fire deal By SAMY MAGDYDecember 26, 2020 GMT CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s rival leaders kicked off a U.N.-brokered prisoner exchange, United Nations and Libyan officials said Saturday, which was part of a preliminary cease-fire agreement between the warring Libyan groups. The exchange of a first batch of prisoners, supervised by a joint military committee, took place Friday in the southwestern village of al-Shwayrif, according to the U.N. Support M...

World December 27, 2020 CAIRO: Libya’s rivals kicked off a UN-brokered prisoner exchange, which was part of a cease-fire agreement they inked over two months ago in Geneva, the United Nations and Libyan officials said. The exchange of a first batch of prisoners, supervised by a joint military committee, took place Friday in the southwestern village of Al-Shwayrif, according to the UN Support Mission in Libya, or UNSMIL. Libya is split between a UN-supported government in the capital, Tripoli...