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Libya’s Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani takes part in a joint news conference with Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat (not pictured) at the Auberge de Castille in Valletta on October 21, 2014. (Reuters/Darrin Zammit)

Libyan PM: We are working under impossible circumstances

by Khalid Mahmoud | Jan 10, 2015 | Interviews

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Abdullah Al-Thani, head of the internationally recognized government of Libya, is facing political rivals from within and without. A parallel government, run by Islamists in Tripoli is vying with his Tobruk-based parliament for control of the...

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Libya’s Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani takes part in a joint news conference with Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat (not pictured) at the Auberge de Castille in Valletta on October 21, 2014. (Reuters/Darrin Zammit)

Libyan PM will not step down: cabinet source

by Khalid Mahmoud | Jan 8, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Libya’s interim Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani has struck a deal with parliamentary rivals to remain in office, a senior government source told Asharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday, following speculation that Thani was considering resigning....

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Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani (Asharq All-Awsat)

Libya’s PM considering resignation: minister

by Khalid Mahmoud | Jan 2, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—A Libyan official has revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani may consider resigning from his position, with an “undeclared battle” to succeed him raging behind-the-scenes among members of the parliament....

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Firefighters try to put out a fire in an oil tank in Libya’s Sidra port, on December 26, 2014. (Reuters Photos)

Islamists seeking complete control of Libyan oil: officials

by Khalid Mahmoud | Dec 27, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Libya’s Western-backed Tobruk-based government warned that rival Islamist militias are seeking to seize complete control of the country’s oil industry, calling on the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take...

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Gen. Khalifa Haftar attends a news conference in Abyar, east of Benghazi, on May 17, 2014. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Files)

France blocks British call for sanctions on Haftar: Libyan minister

by Khalid Mahmoud | Dec 11, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—France has blocked an attempt by Britain to impose UN sanctions on Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar, a high-level Libyan government source told Asharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday. A minister in the Tobruk-based government led by Prime Minister...