Libyan Crisis

Libyan government forces have arrested four suspects responsible for kidnapping three Turkish workers in Libya, according to a local official. 

Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarrajand East Lebanon's military leader, Khalifa Haftar, are committed to establishing a cease-fire regime and making elections at the earliest opportunity, in a draft statement released today by the Elysée Palace in Paris. Reported SEGA. 

Turkey has voiced its concerns over the escalation of violence that took place in Libya's capital Tripoli on May 26.

The clashes between forces loyal to the U.N.-backed and unity government - based in the capital - and forces loyal to the Tobruk-based government left at least 25 people dead and 50 others injured in Tripoli.

A car exploded on Jan. 21 in the Libyan capital near the Italian embassy killing two people who were inside the vehicle, security and medical sources said.

It was not immediately clear if the blast was accidental or an attack or whether the Italian embassy, which had reopened less than two weeks ago, was the target.

BELGRADE - Five years ago, strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who had balanced Libyan factions to preserve stability, was hunted down and brutally killed by NATO-backed rebels, but ousting him has resulted in chaos and perpetual bloodshed rather than freedom and prosperity.

BELGRADE - A Serbian national was kidnapped in Libya on Saturday, the Serbian Foreign Ministry told Tanjug on Tuesday.

The kidnapping of Miroslav Tomic (36) occurred at a site 120 km from the border with Egypt, the ministry said.

Bulgarian photographer Stoyan Nenov is part of of the Thomson Reuters staff that won a Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography on Monday.

Nenov has received the award along with seven other photographers and a team of New York Times for covering the migrant crisis.

Libya's National Salvation government in Tripoli has declared a state of emergency after reports that four members of the rival United Nations' unity government have arrived.

The Greek authorities have called on EU Coordinator for the refugee crisis Maarten Verwey to pressure Turkey to implement the EU-Turkey refugee agreement, as the food of refugees and immigrants from Turkey has increased after only the second day the agreement was put into effect.

After two days of heated negotiations in Brussels, leaders from the EU and Turkey agreed on Friday on the controversial refugee deal aimed at stemming the refugee and migrant flow to Europe.

Under the terms of the agreement, Greece will start sending back migrants to Turkey from Sunday onwards.