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The next stop was Derna, a small port 90 miles west of Tobruk on the Mediterranean. The commander of Derna’s defenses was Lt.-Gen. Annibale Bergonzoli who had escaped, first from Sidi Barrani to Bardia, then to Tobruk, and now to Derna. Because of his beard, Gen. Bergonzoli was known as “Barba Elettrica” (“Electric Beard”). Barba Elettrica had commanded the Littorio Division in the Spanish Civil War, and in the recent invasion of Egypt, was commander of the XXIII Corps....

Forensics teams in war-shattered Libya have discovered 10 more bodies in mass graves in a town formerly controlled by a militia outside the capital Tripoli, the Government of National Accord has said. “Three bodies were blindfolded and their wrists bound,” the GNA’s interior ministry said in a Facebook post on Thursday on the latest grisly find at Tarhuna, 80km (50 miles) southeast of Tripoli. The United Nations had voiced “horror” when the mass graves were first discovered last June....

By Ambassador Anil Trigunayat. 21 January 2021: A wasted decade is the story of Libya and apathy of an interventionist but irresponsible international community to put it mildly. Arab Spring that started in Tunisia also called “Jasmine Revolution’ left the failing and falling regimes in its wake. The hapless and more disgruntled people are trying to cope with fractured socio-economic fabric as political stability has become a distant goal. Libya faced the worst due to sheer negligence and ...

In the Shadow of Greater Kingdoms But Numidians were not content to always dwell in the shadow of Carthage. Their independence soon became prominent, and a strong, prosperous kingdom was about to emerge. Polybius, the crucial ancient Greek historian, was amongst the first to write about Numidia. Around 200 BC, he mentions them as the peoples who live to the west of Carthage, in a territory that roughly corresponds to modern day Algeria. The name Numidians allegedly stems from the ancient Gree...

Libya: Peace talks not possible amid fighting, UN envoy By: RFE/RL Source: RFE/R The United Nations’ special envoy to Libya has hinted that next week’s planned peace conference could be postponed amid ongoing fighting between rival militias for control of the capital, Tripoli r daten herunterladen. In a statement on April 9, Ghassan Salame expressed hope that the meeting will be convened as soon as conditions permit, saying: “We cannot ask people to take part in the conference during ...

Fire, blast at ammunition warehouse in western Libya kills 3 by The Associated Press Last Updated Jan 20, 2021 at 4:15 am EDT CAIRO — A fire, followed by an explosion at an ammunition warehouse at a naval academy in western Libya killed three people, including two officers, a Libyan spokesman said Wednesday. It was not clear what caused the overnight blaze at the academy in the town of Janzur, about 24 kilometres (14 miles) west of the capital of Tripoli, said Masoud Abdal Samad, the spokesma...

By Sami Zaptia. The TPF says it rejects the LPDF outcomes on the selection mechanism for Libya’s next government (Logo: TPF). London, 20 January 2021: The Tripoli Protection Force (TPF), the city’s coalition of its main militias, recognized by the internationally recognized Libyan government based in the country’s capital, announced yesterday that it rejects the outputs and the method of voting used by the UNSMIL-brokered Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) to agree on a selection mec...

Lybian national flag (copyright by Shutterstock/Leo Altman) Years of neglect brought on by nearly ten years of civil war has caught up with Libyas once formidable oil pipeline network. The countrys oil output has fallen by about 200,000 bpd after an oil pipeline taking crude to the eastern port of Es Sider, Libyas largest, could no longer continue to operate.  The pipeline "has a large number of leaks and is worn out," says the state-owned National Oil Company (NOC). Libya’s daily pr...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Constitutional Committee, comprising members of the House of Representatives (Parliament) and the High Council of State, has agreed to hold a referendum on the draft Constitution, with the adopti

Following is Kommersant.rus article: "Another Influential Player Has Emerged In The Transcaucasian Conflict: Pakistan" "Against the backdrop of the dispute over the Turkeys role in the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, another influential player has emerged in the Transcaucasian conflict: Pakistan. In an interview with the Indian TV channel WION, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that militants from Pakistan are also taking part in the Karabakh war. With this statement, the Armenian l...