Libya to Co-Host Flintlock 26

In a historic first, Libya will co-host Exercise Flintlock 2026, a training event intended to bring together both factions of the country’s divided armed forces. U.S. Lt. Gen. John Brennan, the deputy commander of U.S. Africa Command, made the...

Qatar participates in Arab meeting with EU Council Political Committee Ambassadors

The State of Qatar participated in the 10th meeting of Permanent Representatives to the League of Arab States and Ambassadors of the Political and Security Committee of the Council of the European Union (EU), held today in Brussels. The State of...

Dick Cheney, Architect of Post-9/11 United States Foreign Policy and Former Vice President, Dies at 84

Washington, D.C. – November 4, 2025 – Richard Bruce Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, a pivotal figure in Republican politics for over four decades, and a central architect of the 2003 Iraq War, died on Monday night, November...

26/11: Did Pak president's nuclear no-first-use offer trigger ISI to attack India?

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's spokesperson says the Mumbai 26/11 attacks were a response to his offer of a 'no first use' (of nuclear weapons) to India. In 'The Zardari Presidency: Now It Must Be Told', Farhatullah Babar writes how Zardari...

Region reflects on past visits after former vice president’s death

RALPH WILSON/Sun-Gazette Correspondent Former Vice President Dick Cheney greets supporters at the Williamsport Regional Airport during a stop in 2004. From attending a game during the Little League World Series, to casting a fly rod into...

Dick Cheney, architect of post-9/11 American wars that killed 4.5 million people

By Ivan Kesic Richard Bruce Cheney, who died on November 3, 2025, at 84, leaves behind a legacy as the ruthless architect of America’s post-9/11 wars, which killed 4.5 million people and displaced over 38 million others, as per a study by Brown...

El-Fasher Bombing Continues Crisis in Sudan’s Civil War

The bloody landscape of el-Fasher, the Sudanese Armed Forces’ (SAF) last stronghold in the Darfur region, is emblematic of the complexity of Sudan’s 2½-year-old civil war. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drones and artillery shells have pulverized the...

UN secretary-general says Sudan's war is ‘spiralling out of control’

THE United Nations secretary-general warned yesterday that the war in Sudan is “spiralling out of control” after a paramilitary force seized the besieged and famine-stricken city of el-Fasher in Darfur. Speaking in Qatar, Antonio Guterres called...

Field Marshal Haftar visits the Benghazi International Book Fair and praises its cultural role

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, visited the fourth edition of the Benghazi International Book Fair on Tuesday, accompanied by the Prime Minister of the Libyan Government, Osama Hammad. The...

Top UN officials in Libya meet persons with disabilities

05 november 2025 - 08:27:29 MA 189 Views Panafrican News Agency Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The top UN officials in Libya have met with organisations of persons with disabilities to discuss the challenges they face and their priorities and views on...

Libya considers raising oil output to 1.6 million bpd next year

Libya is considering raising its oil output to 1.6 million barrels per day next year, and 1.8 million bpd in 2027, the country’s oil minister, Khalifa Abdulsadek, said on Tuesday. “We have a mission to increase oil output to 2 million bpd in the...

Trump’s Latest Military Campaign Tests the Limits of Presidential War Powers

OPINION / EXPERT PERSPECTiVE — According to reports, the Trump administration informed Congress that the ongoing hostilities against alleged narco-terrorist groups does not fall within the scope of the War Powers Resolution (WPR). As a result, the...

Dick Cheney dead at 84: A war criminal who paved the way for Trump

Vice President Dick Cheney (right) with President George W. Bush in Washington on July 11, 2008. [AP Photo/Evan Vucci]Dick Cheney is dead. The American people will now be subjected to the predictable deluge of tributes for the former vice...

Medusa Subsea Cable Lands in Tunisia

Dan Swinhoe, Data Center Dynamics November 03, 2025 The Medusa subsea cable has landed in Tunisia, its second landing point. Announced this week, the cable landed in Bizerte, following the landing in Marseille, France, last month. The initial...

Libya’s Oil Minister Targets 1.6 Million b/d in 2026

Opec member Libya plans to lift oil output to 1.6 million barrels per day in 2026 from its current 1.38 million b/d but has yet to agree on a key oil expansion project in the country’s eastern Sirte Basin.

UN envoy, UK ambassador discuss Libya’s political roadmap

The UN’s top envoy to Libya, Hana Tetteh, has met the British ambassador, Martin Reynolds, in Tripoli to review efforts to revive Libya’s political process. The talks focused on UNSMIL’s roadmap aimed at paving the way for national elections and...

Yusif Chibsah predicts difficult spell for Albert Amoah in Libya

The Head of Player Relations at the Professional Footballers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Yusif Chibsah, has voiced his unease over the timing of Albert Amoah’s switch to Libyan outfit Al Ahli Benghazi. Amoah completed the move just days after...

Libya announces oil discovery in Ghadames Basin

TRIPOLI, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced Tuesday the discovery of oil in an exploratory well south of the Western Mountain in the Ghadames Basin, about 450 km southwest of Tripoli. The NOC said in a post on...

Egypt, UK discuss Gaza reconstruction ahead of int'l conference

Top Egyptian and UK officials discuss Gaza reconstruction, bilateral ties, and regional developments ahead of a Cairo-hosted reconstruction conference. Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held talks on Tuesday with the UK’s National Security...

Al-Mahdawi: Khoury’s statements cover up the failure of the UN roadmap in Libya

Political analyst Ahmed al-Mahdawi considered the statements by Deputy UN Envoy Stephanie Khoury, regarding the non-binding nature of the structured dialogue’s outcomes, to be an attempt to pre-emptively cover for the failure of the UN roadmap....