A Tunisian NGO has set up a food bank that dispenses aid by text message to some 300 needy families rendered more vulnerable because of the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative, which had been long in the making, was finally launched at the end of April to coincide with the start of the...

Tunisia said it inspected a Turkish plane headed for Libya with medical aid that landed at an airport near the border. The aircraft was authorised to land at Djerba airport in the country's south, the Tunisian presidency said in statements issued Thursday and Friday. Tunisia had...

The United States does not support the offensive of Libya’s eastern-based military leader Khalifa Haftar against Tripoli and believes Russia is working with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to transfer militia fighters and equipment to Libya, senior U.S. officials said on Thursday. “The...

Artillery shelling by Libya's eastern-based forces killed five civilians and wounded dozens in the capital, Tripoli, an official with the country's U.N.-supported government said Thursday. It was the latest attack on Tripoli by the eastern forces’ commander Khalifa Hifter, who launched a...