Libya’s Amin, Türkiye’s Yilmaz Discuss Efforts to Enhance Security Cooperation, Facilitate Visas

 Libya’s PM Fathi Bashagha during his meeting with Germany’s special envoy and ambassador to Libya Christian Buck and Michael Ohnmacht. (Buck’s Twitter account)
Libya’s PM Fathi Bashagha during his meeting with Germany’s special envoy and ambassador to Libya Christian Buck and Michael Ohnmacht. (Buck’s Twitter account)
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Libya’s Amin, Türkiye’s Yilmaz Discuss Efforts to Enhance Security Cooperation, Facilitate Visas

 Libya’s PM Fathi Bashagha during his meeting with Germany’s special envoy and ambassador to Libya Christian Buck and Michael Ohnmacht. (Buck’s Twitter account)
Libya’s PM Fathi Bashagha during his meeting with Germany’s special envoy and ambassador to Libya Christian Buck and Michael Ohnmacht. (Buck’s Twitter account)

The Ministry of the Interior of Libya’s interim unity government, headed by Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, said that its Undersecretary for District Affairs, Bashir al-Amin, held talks on Thursday with Türkiye’s ambassador to Libya Kenan Yilmaz.

They discussed a number of common security issues between the Libyan and Turkish interior ministries, as well as means to enhance security coordination in the field of training and qualifying security personnel.

Talks also touched on the problems facing Libyan citizens to obtain the Turkish visa and efforts to overcome the challenges, in coordination with both countries’ embassies and relevant authorities.

Separately, Dbeibeh underscored the importance of determining specific dates to issue the constitutional basis for the elections, stressing that it should be fair and unbiased.

This came during his meeting with heads of some political parties in Tripoli on Thursday. He also called for preparing alternative solutions.

According to a statement circulated by his office, Dbeibeh further underlined the importance of the political parties’ participation in the political process as the basis of the democratic process.

He also reviewed the government's vision, which requires setting a new road map that leads directly to the elections.

The party leaders, for their part, underlined the need to issue a new regulation for the law governing parties and political organizations, in line with the developments taking place.



Israeli Airstrike kills 3, Including Child, in Southern Lebanon

Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
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Israeli Airstrike kills 3, Including Child, in Southern Lebanon

Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed three people, including a child.
The ministry said the Thursday night airstrike on the southern village of Kfarjoz also wounded three people.

A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that one of the dead was “a fighter in Hezbollah” and the two others were “civilians."

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the strike “targeted two motorcycles on the Nabatieh-Kfarjoz road," and that a passing car was also hit.

The Lebanon-Israel border has been witnessing daily exchanges for nearly a year as Hezbollah says it’s backing up its ally Hamas in Gaza.
More than 500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since Oct. 8, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups but also more than 100 civilians.

In northern Israel, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed by strikes from Lebanon.

On Friday, the Israeli military said “approximately 20 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory” around Safed, where the Israeli army Northern Command is based.

“Most were successfully intercepted, the rest fell in open areas,” the army said, adding that no injuries were reported but teams were working to “extinguish the fire that erupted due to a fall in the area."