Iraqi President Barham Salih is the first senior Iraqi official to meet Fayyadh after the PMF leader was placed on the US sanctions’ list.

Protesters have taken to the streets in several cities across eastern Libya in recent days in anger over poor living conditions.

Iraqi President, Barham Saleh, threatened to exercise ‘constitutional powers’ to name new PM if parliament does not after Abd al-Mahdi’s resignation in December.

Foreign Ministers of Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Chad, Mali, Sudan and Niger gathered in Algiers to discuss a solution to the conflict in Libya. All sides expressed agreement against foreign interference in the country.

The two warring factions of Libya, the GNA and LNA, have agreed to a ceasefire agreement earlier last week, with plans for it to start on Saturday night. However, the ceasefire has since been violated, with both sides blaming each other.

As the conflict in Libya escalates, local and regional powers led by Algeria are increasing their political and diplomatic involvement to find a solution to the crisis.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on all actors in Libya to halt military operations and stressed the need to support the efforts of UN Envoy Ghassan Salame.

The UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salameh, has arrived at Benina International Airport in Benghazi to meet with a number of leaders in eastern Libya.

Haftar's LNA troops are trying diplomatic methods to seize al-Feel and its oilfields, but developments could turn violent soon.

On Monday, Jordanian King Abdullah II visited Iraq for the first time in over a decade. The visit by the king of Jordan is the latest in a string of top-level diplomatic encounters in Iraq in recent weeks.The two countries share a 179-kilometer border, and Jordan is a major importer of Iraqi crude oil.

The Iraqi President, Barham Saleh, met with the winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, Nadia Murad, where they discussed the case of Yazidi women being captured by ISIS militants.

The Turkish Government and local council in Marea, a town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, have opened a training centre to help young people find work.

A French-backed plan for general elections in Libya was backed by the UN Security Council on Wednesday. This comes after Libyan leaders met in Paris for an international conference last week.

Libyan leaders gathered in Paris on Tuesday and announced their commitment to elections, which are now scheduled for December later this year

With the conflict entering its 8th year, the main political actors in Libya are trying to reach a settlement which has the potential to be the solution to the crisis. The latest attempt was done by France in cooperation with other countries.

Libya: General Khalifa Haftar may have survived his illness but the struggle for his seat has already started. Speculations regarding his potential successor is already taking place within Libya.