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This region is a part of the Macedonian Empire,capital region of the empire is Macedonia.

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The World Census conducted frenzied haggling with fishmongers in order to determine which nations have the largest fishing industries.

As a region, Libya is ranked 2,295th in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector.

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A no fly zone in Libya is not worth the price.

Long Live Libya! Repel the invading Muslim radical terrorists and their international supporters!

I would like to announce myself as the revolutionary leader. The revolution begins now! Jamahiriya will reign in this region!

They shout Allahu Akbhar and cheer while Gaddafi was sodomized with a knife:

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/111024/gaddafi-sodomized-video-gaddafi-sodomy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=053Pyclbo2A http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/24/gaddafi-sodomized-video_n_1028970.html

Grievously wounded Gaddafi subjected to excessive acts of sodomy accompanied by screams of "Allah is great": http://globalfire.tv/nj/11en/politics/gaddafi_sodomized.htm

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Islamic State conflict: US strikes in Libya ‘kill 80 rebels’ – BBC News


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A US air strike on Libya has killed more than 80 rebels from so-called Islamic State (IS), said outgoing US Defence Secretary Ash Carter. The mission, which dropped around 100 bombs on Wednesday, is thought to be the last signed by President Barack ...
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Avoid Libya or get killed – Presidency warns Nigerians – NAIJ.COM

- The Nigerian government has warned citizens of the country against embarking on a trip to troubled Libya henceforth

- The warning came from the office of the senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on foreign affairs and diaspora

Nigerians have been warned against going to Libya for now following the purported killing of black immigrants in the country.

Some alleged black captives held in Libya

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the warning is coming from the office of Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on foreign affairs and diaspora.

There have been recent reports of killing of black immigrants in the troubled country and Mrs Dabiri-Erewa said even though the stories have not been clearly verified, they call for Nigerians to avoid the country since Libya had been known for killing alleged illegal immigrants.

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I hereby appeal again to Nigerian migrants to avoid Libya as penalty for illegal migration to Libya, when caught, is usually a death sentence.

As the chairman committee on diaspora in the House of Representatives in the seventh Assembly, we intervened in the case of 24 Nigerians about to be killed in Libya.

The committee, in collaboration with SERAP, an NGO, petitioned the UN, AU, ECOWAS, and Ghadaffi yielded to pressure and released them.

As at two months ago, NEMA alongside, the Nigerian embassy in Libya evacuated over 2000 Nigerians from Libya.

The Nigerian embassy in Libya, working with NEMA has relentlessly intervened in cases involving Nigerians in trouble in Libya and will continue to do so.

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Libyans are dealing with their own struggles as there is no recognised government in place, the statement said.

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Why Russia May Win in Libya – The National Interest Online

What snapshot best captures the insanity of Americas approach to the Middle East? The most obvious answer is the war in Iraqa country in which were still bogged down almost fourteen years after overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Another is the Syrian Civil War, where many factions are running around with American-supplied weaponsincluding the former Al Qaeda franchise and Hezbollah.

But for my money, our Mideast folly is best illustrated by the regions next-door neighbor, Libya. In that country, a civil war is deepening between an American-backed government and a previously American-backed general. The former is the United Nationsendorsed Government of National Accord (GNA), which was sealifted over from Tunisia last spring. The interim government has since failed to exert control over even the capital city of Tripoli. The latter is Khalifa Haftar, a prior ally of Muammar el-Qaddafi, who later defected and engineered several failed attempts at toppling the regime while living in Virginia. The GNA is dismissed by many in Libya as a Western puppet, while Haftar is rumored to be a CIA agent. Additionally, innuendos widely persist that the United States created ISISa shared enemy of GNA and Haftar.

So our battle for hearts and minds continues apace.

Haftar and the government he backs, known as the House of Representatives (HOR), are based in the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk. The citys persistence against Axis attacks during World War II rattled confidence in famed German officer Erwin Rommel. Today, its the West that Tobruk is vexing. The HORs refusal to endorse the GNA and the continuing quarrels between the two governments are thwarting diplomatic attempts at unification. The two sides briefly set aside their differences to expel ISIS from the city of Sirte late last year, but even then there was jostling. Since then, tensions have escalated once again. Both governments derive their military power from factionalized fighters, particularly the GNA, which is reliant on powerful militias from the city of Misrata. Libya became fractured after el-Qaddafi was deposed. It is now a game of militias and it is those militias that will ultimately decide its political fate.

Prior to 1963, Libya was split into three provinces: Tripolitania (home of the modern-day GNA), Cyrenaica (home of the modern-day HOR) and Fezzan. At that point, the country was feebly governed by King Idris of Libya. Tribal and provincial identities ran strong and often superseded any national allegiance. Hoping to forge a more singular Libya, the king eventually abolished the provinces. After Idris was overthrown in 1969, el-Qaddafi followed with a ruthless program of nationalization, which produced the country that we know today. Its a cruel admission, but el-Qaddafi created modern Libya, and without his adhesive regime it has predictably disintegrated. Thus, the United States made the same blunder in Libya that it made in Iraq. It failed to comprehend that the object was an artificial nation and did not bother to study the myriad divisions that crisscrossed beneath the surface. By trying to supplant a dictatorship with a national democracy, the United States only created chaos.

The best that can be said about Libya today is that its civil war is not as bloody as the one in Syria. Still, an ominous similarity between the two conflicts is taking shape. Russia, which has long reinforced Bashar al-Assads regime in Damascus, has gotten involved in Libya by backing the HOR. Recently, Haftar was feted aboard the Admiral Kuznetsov, Moscows lone aircraft carrier. It was there that he inked an agreement with the Russians. Vladimir Putin is hoping to score public-relations victories both ideologically and militarily: first, by supporting strongman Haftar while the Western-linked and putatively democratic GNA flounders, and second, by continuing to appear a scourge of terrorism (Haftar despises Islamism and has been instrumental in fumigating Benghazi of jihadists). Libya will further Russias goal of bolstering its presence in the Mediterranean. The agreement Russia signed with Haftar permits the country to build two new bases in eastern Libya.

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EU considers increased support to help Libya tackle people traffickers – EurActiv

The EU could soon step up training and equipping Libyas coast guard to crack down on migrant smuggling in the North African nations waters, according to an EU proposal seen by AFP on Saturday (21 January).

Malta, which holds the current rotating EU Presidency, is pitching the idea as a short-term measure to try to prevent a new spate of smuggling to Europe when spring arrives.

The EUs naval anti-migrant smuggling task force, known as Operation Sophia, does not have approval yet either from the UN or Tripoli to operate in Libyan waters.

Maltas proposal on empowering Libyan forces questions whether it is politically realistic to expect that EU naval forces will be able to operate within Libyan waters in the months ahead.

The EU should therefore consider creating a line of protection much closer to the ports of origin of smuggler boats, the proposal said.

This would be in Libyan waters with Libyan forces as frontline operators, but with strong and lasting EU support, said the proposal prepared by Malta in agreement with European Council President Donald Tusk.

An EU summit in December called for increasing support to the Libyan coast guard, which the EU began training and equipping last October.

The Maltese document said the increased support could be carried out by the current train and equip programme under Operation Sophia but said the issue of financing needs to be addressed as a matter of priority for future trainings.

The UN-backed Libyan unity government is seeking to end years of lawlessness following the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi but it is locked in a power struggle with a rival administration in eastern Libya.

The EU proposal also raised the possibility of using its ties with Libyas neighbours Tunisia and Egypt to crack down on migrant smuggling.

Malta also wants to set up an arrangement with Libya similar to last years aid-for-cooperation deal with Turkey that has dramatically slowed migrant landings in Greece, which had been the main entry point for Europe.

Arrivals over the central Mediterranean route, with Libya as the main launchpad, are picking up sharply with more than 180,000 migrants landing in Italy last year, compared with a previous annual record of 170,100 in 2014.

The proposal could come before the leaders of the 28-nation bloc at their summit in Malta on 3 February.

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