Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
November 2019 - Libya Special Weapons News
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- US Delegation Meets With Head of Libyan National Army Discussing Suspension of Hostilities Sputnik 26 Nov 2019 -- US officials have met with the commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, discussing possible ways of resolving the conflict with the UN-backed Government of National Accord in Libya, the US State Department said in a statement.
- AFRICOM Opens Investigation After Losing Remotely Piloted Aircraft Over Tripoli Sputnik 23 Nov 2019 -- US Africa Command (AFRICOM) is now conducting an investigation after losing communication with a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) necessary for terror surveillance earlier this week.
- Airstrike Kills 10 in Libyan Capital, May Amount to War Crime – UN Envoy Sputnik 18 Nov 2019 -- An airstrike on a biscuit factory in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has killed at least 10 civilians and could amount to a war crime, United Nations Special Representative for Libya Ghassan Salame said during a UN Security Council on Monday.
- Libya 'ever more in race against time', but dissolving conflict 'a realistic prospect', Security Council hears UN News 18 Nov 2019 -- A recent resurgence of violence in Tripoli, means Libya is "ever more in a race against time" to reach peace, however, agreeing the way forward to ending the conflict "is a realistic prospect", the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Monday.
- Libya's FM: Drone Strike Could Be War Crime VOA 18 Nov 2019 -- Libya's foreign minister said Monday that a deadly drone strike on a biscuit factory in the capital, Tripoli, may be a war crime.
- Libya government seizes plane from rival camp Press TV 17 Nov 2019 -- Libya's internationally-recognized government, based in the west of the country, has seized a Libyan Airlines aircraft operating from Benghazi in the east.
- Joint Statement on U.S.-Libya Security Dialogue US Dept. of State 14 Nov 2019
- Libya's Competing Governments Contend for Washington Influence VOA 08 Nov 2019 -- The Libyan civil war has found a new battlefield: the halls of Washington. The eight-year conflict shows little sign of ending, and the warring governments are stepping up their efforts to influence policymakers in the United States.
- Senior diplomat rejects reports of Russians fighting in Libya Press TV 07 Nov 2019 -- Russia has strongly rejected Western media reports that Russian private military companies linked to the Kremlin were operating in Libya in favor of one of the conflicting sides.
- Moscow Denies US Reports of 200 Russian Troops Allegedly Deployed in Libya Sputnik 07 Nov 2019 -- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has refuted US media reports about Russian contractors allegedly operating in crisis-torn Libya, calling them "speculation".
- 'Violence, atrocities and impunity' reign throughout Libya, ICC prosecutor tells UN Security Council UN News 06 Nov 2019 -- Libya remains entangled in a "cycle of violence, atrocities and impunity", International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the UN Security Council on Wednesday, nearly a decade since the Court began its work in the country.
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