Libya is a sovereign state in North Africa. Known for its post-2011 civil war fragmentation, competing eastern and western governments, foreign military interventions, and vast oil reserves as a geopolitical prize. Recently, Libya's rival administrations reached a preliminary agreement on a path toward unified national elections. Last updated Jul 5th, 2026
al-BayyadaDistrict Muammar GaddafiHead of State TripoliCity KharroufCity Ahmed Jumaa ZarabOther Al QatraniCity Birket al-MarjCity BlaishaCity BraiqaaCity BratiOther Continental Plateau Oil CompanyEnergy / Industry Khamis Muhammad Khamis QassasOther MadamaCity Muhammad Najib AshurOther Ras BaydaCity Ras Oil FieldStrategic Site Saleh Ramadan Muhammad KhalifaOther Tair DebbaCity Libyan National ArmyParamilitary / Militia
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met General Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi, eastern Libya, in a rare visit. Turkey has long backed the rival western Libyan government that competes with Haftar.
Widespread outages hit areas south of Zawiya in western Libya after an FPV drone struck and destroyed the South Zawiya 30/11 kV substation, triggering a major fire. The attack, still unclaimed, adds to a recent wave of drone strikes on the region's power and oil sites.
Multiple drone attacks, with at least 5 reported since Saturday, have targeted oil facilities in Libya’s Zawiya. State oil firm NOC warned it could declare force majeure if attacks on the city’s energy infrastructure continue.
Libya’s NOC is essentially warning that continued drone attacks could force it to suspend oil production or exports without being held liable for failing to deliver contracted oil.
Trump: The same Lindsey Graham, when he met Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in a tent in the desert, he told him I expected something out of the Arabian Nights! This looks more like a Winnebago. That was not a good statement to make at the time!. When he met the Dalai Lama, Lindsey looked him straight in the eyes and said, so can you really levitate? The Dalai Lama was not happy with that. But no matter how high he rose, he never forgot where he came from."
Libya's rival governments in the east and west signed a roadmap today for nationwide elections in 2027, the Tripoli-based Presidential Council announced. The agreement, brokered after years of UN-led mediation with recent involvement from T...
Libya's rival governments in the east and west signed a roadmap today for nationwide elections in 2027, the Tripoli-based Presidential Council announced. The agreement, brokered after years of UN-led mediation with recent involvement from Trump envoy Masad Bolus, aims to replace the two competing administrations with a unified government. Libya's last elections in 2014 produced disputed results and sparked civil war. A planned 2021 vote was canceled days before it was set to take place.
The Syrian Army is participating in Turkey's EFES-2026 combined military exercise with a core unit, the first time Syrian forces have joined a drill outside the country since Syria's restructuring.
502 Libyan troops drawn from both eastern...
The Syrian Army is participating in Turkey's EFES-2026 combined military exercise with a core unit, the first time Syrian forces have joined a drill outside the country since Syria's restructuring.
502 Libyan troops drawn from both eastern and western factions are also taking part under a single Libyan flag. It marks the first time Libya's military has trained outside its own borders.
EFES-2026 is Turkey's largest combined live-fire exercise of the year, bringing together more than 10,000 troops and observers from approximately 50 countries.
"Iran is a very bad regime, no debate there. I disagree with them on many issues. But we won’t solve it with bombings or military strikes. Look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, 20 years of operations, no lasting results. Sovereignty must be respected; if people want change, they should be able to act."
Tucker Carlson: “Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?”
Joe Kent: “No, they weren’t. Not in June either. The Iranians have had a religious ruling, a fatwa, against developing a nuclear weapon since 2004. That’s public knowledg...
Tucker Carlson: “Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?”
Joe Kent: “No, they weren’t. Not in June either. The Iranians have had a religious ruling, a fatwa, against developing a nuclear weapon since 2004. That’s public knowledge, and we had no intelligence suggesting it was being ignored or about to be lifted.
The Iranians know the stakes in their region. Their strategy has been to maintain their nuclear program just enough, seeing what happened to Muammar Gaddafi in Libya when he gave up his nukes.”
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