Yearly Archives: 2015

Libyan refugees double since last September

According to the United Nations refugee agency, the number of people displaced within Libya has almost doubled from an estimated 230,000 last September to more than 434,000 amid escalating fighting this year in different parts of the crisis-gripped North-African country. “The internally displaced persons (IDPs) comprise 83,697 families, according to …

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UN extends Darfur peacekeeping force

The Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a one-year extension of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region where conflict is intensifying, rejecting the Sudanese government’s demand that the troops leave. A resolution adopted by the UN’s most powerful body keeps the size of the force …

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Over 21 Libyan soldiers killed in clashes this week

Fighting raged between government forces and Islamists in eastern Libya on Tuesday, with 21 soldiers killed since the clashes broke out at the weekend, a medical official said. The continued fighting came a day after UN envoy Bernardino Leon said he hoped the rival parliaments in the largely lawless North …

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Fifty killed in North Sinai attacks claimed by ISIL

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants launched a wide-scale coordinated assault on several military checkpoints in Egypt’s North Sinai on July 1 in which 50 people were killed, security sources said, the largest attack yet in the insurgency-hit province. Egyptian army F-16 jets and Apache helicopters strafed …

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NATO worried by prospects of heavy fighting return in Ukraine

NATO’s head warned on Thursday of a risk of a return to heavy fighting in Ukraine but said it would be unwise to declare a ceasefire agreement dead, despite repeated violations, because it remained the best hope for peace. The Ukrainian military on Tuesday accused pro-Russian rebels of conducting long-range …

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