Libya conflict: Tripoli rocket attacks halt peace talks

Gen Khalifa Haftar's forces have been besieging the capital for more than a year.

The UN’s envoy for Libya held talks in Tripoli Friday, seeking to encourage the administration there to commit to a national unity government that would end years of bloodshed.

The United Nations said Friday it will host another round of Libyan peace talks in Geneva next week, stressing that completing an agreement was a matter of “extreme urgency”.

Rana Jawad reports on the controversy surrounding the UN's outgoing envoy to Libya and the challenge facing his newly appointed successor.

An unidentified jet carries out two air strikes on Maitiga air base in Tripoli, the Libyan capital's last functioning airport.

Israel’s military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket fire, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire. “Terror targets” were hit in Gaza after rockets were fired towards the towns of Beersheba and Netivot, officials said. Talks in Cairo to end the violence have broken up, and the Israeli delegation is now on its way back home. Officials say 2,016 Palestinians and 66 Israelis have died since Operation Protective Edge began on 8 July. ‘No...

Watu wenye silaha wameshambulia hoteli moja mjini Tripoli na kuwaua walinzi watatu.

Israel’s commercial capital is under rocket fire from Palestinian militants in Gaza, its normally nonchalant residents using black humour to disguise the anguish of another open war with Hamas.

MPs remove Omar al-Hassi as head of Libya's Islamist-backed alternative government in Tripoli amid allegations of financial irregularities.