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Against this backdrop of division, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Ansar al-Sharia, as well as other militant groups both religious and tribal in nature, have seized control of several cities and districts across Libya, especially in Cyrenaica, which is theoretically under the control of the Tobruk-based government. [13] [14] [15]
This article lists the heads of government of Libya since the country's independence in 1951.. Libya has been in a tumultuous state since the start of the Arab Spring-related Libyan crisis in 2011; the crisis resulted in the collapse of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the killing of Muammar Gaddafi, amidst the First Civil War and the foreign military intervention.
Secretary-General of the GPC. Gaddafi renounced all government functions on 2 March 1979. However, as leader of the revolution (officially "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution"), he retained ultimate control over Libya until he was deposed and killed during the First Civil War in 2011. [9] [10] [11] 3 Abdul Ati al-Obeidi: 1939–2023 2 ...
Abdul Hamid Muhammad Abdul Rahman al-Dbeibeh [3] (Arabic: عبدالحميد محمد عبدالرحمن الدبيبة, also transliterated as Dbeibah; born 13 February 1958 [4]) is a Libyan politician and businessman who is the prime minister of Libya under the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli.
LONDON/CAIRO, April 29 (Reuters) - Eastern-based Libyan forces led by Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive in April on the capital Tripoli in the west that has plunged the oil-producing nation ...
The Government of National Stability (Arabic: حكومة الاستقرار الوطني, romanized: Ḥukūmat al-istiqrār al-waṭanī) is a provisional government of Libya based in Benghazi [1] that formed on 3 March 2022, led by Osama Hamada and supported by the House of Representatives and the Libyan National Army.
A At the height of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in the late 1980s, Saleh Ali Sariyeh decided to leave the Palestinian refugee camp where he had been living and move to Libya in search of safety ...
Due to the conflict, there are currently two Libyan embassies in Malta. The General National Congress now controls the official Libyan Embassy in Balzan, while the Tobruk-based Eastern Libyan House of Representatives has opened a consulate in Ta' Xbiex. Each of the two embassies say that visas issued by the other entity are not valid. [288]