Libya

ISIS fighters assumed responsibility for the suicide attacks in eastern Libya on Friday, according to social media.

Approximately 40 people lost their lives and another 70 were wounded after cars exploded.

ISIS killed and wounded all these tens of people as an answer to the attack against jihadists in Derna.

At least 25 people were killed and 30 wounded Feb. 20 in a triple bombing in an eastern Libyan town near the jihadist stronghold of Derna, medical and security sources said.
      
The simultaneous attacks targeted police headquarters in Al-Qoba, as well as the home of the speaker of Libya's internationally recognised parliament and a petrol station, the sources said.

Having balked at Egypt's call for military intervention in Libya, the international community faces a daunting task to find a political solution to the lawless North African country's crisis, analysts say.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed his government’s intent to further develop relations with China, speaking at a reception on Thursday evening in honor of visiting Chinese Navy officers.

The Chinese officers serve on a flotilla of Chinese naval vessels that paid a courtesy call to the port of Piraeus this week.

Ankara has called on the transitional government in Libya to "review its irresponsible attitude and avoid hostile and baseless statements" against Turkey.

US President Barack Obama on Feb. 18 urged Western and Muslim leaders to unite to defeat the "false promises of extremism" and reject jihadists' claims to represent Islam.        

Libya asked the Council of the United Nations Security to lift the arms embargo so they can reorganize their army, in order to be able to deal with jihadists of the Islamic State and other extremist groups.

Italy on Feb. 18 issued its strongest warning yet about the danger of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group establishing a stronghold in Libya from where it could attack Europe and destabilize neighboring states.

At a time when Jihadists are burning and beheading people, or cutting off women’s hands off because they used cellphones, the nightmare of a new round of mass executions surfaced after 35 Egyptian Coptic farmers were kidnapped in Libya in retribution for Egypt’s air raids.

More and more small terrorist groups in Libya are joining the Islamic State, drawn by its success in Iraq and Syria, terror expert Guido Steinberg warns in an interview with Deutsche Welle.

Steinberg argues that, although it seemed at first that these small groups were simply claiming to be IS, it recently became obvious that they have Islamic State contacts that support them.