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The US Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames in the 2012 attack. (Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters)

CIA Officers Detail Part of Benghazi Attack at Abu Khattala’s Trial

by Spencer S. Hsu | Oct 16, 2017 | Middle East

Washington- A CIA witness testified Tuesday that the body of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was returned after the September 2012 attacks on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, only after he overheard Libyan fighters discussing whether to tell Americans about a...

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Libyan General Khalifa Haftar speaking during his meeting with the Tunisian president on September 18, 2017 in Tunisia. (AFP)

Haftar: Failure of Dialogue Compels Libyans to Determine Fate

by Jamal Jawhar | Oct 15, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo – General Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), considered that the ongoing dialogue in Tunis is the only solution for the Libyan problems and in case the dialogue fails to find political solutions then doors will be wide-open for...

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Head of Libya’s State Supreme Council Abdulrahman al-Suweihly (Asharq al-Awsat)

Swehli: The ‘UN Roadmap’ Is a Practical Plan for the Solution in Libya

by Jamal Jawhar | Oct 11, 2017 | Interviews

Cairo- The head of Libya’s State Supreme Council, Abdulrahman al-Swehly said that international and regional actors have become convinced that “no party to the Libyan conflict can win or defeat the other.” In an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, Swehly...

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French President Emmanuel Macron stands between Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj (L), and General Khalifa Haftar (R), commander in the Libyan National Army (LNA), who shake hands after talks over a political deal to help end Libya’s crisis in La Celle-Saint-Cloud near Paris, France, July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

Sarraj Stresses Holding Elections to Resolve the Libyan Crisis

by Khaled Mahmoud and Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 10, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo, Tunisia — Head of Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj stressed the importance of holding the parliamentary and presidential elections to resolve the current crisis in the country. Following his meeting with Turkey’s special envoy to Libya...

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Neighbors and friends of relatives of the Egyptian Coptic men killed in Libya sit at the courtyard of the Virgin Mary Church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers south of Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 16, 2015. Reuters photo

Libyan Authorities Recover Bodies of Beheaded Copts

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 7, 2017 | Middle East

Libyan authorities have recovered the bodies of 21 Coptic Christian workers, mostly Egyptians, beheaded in 2015 by ISIS in the coastal city of Sirte. Sadiq Al-Sour, head of investigations for the Attorney General’s office, said last week that Libyan authorities had...