September 19, 2015
General Security (click here) has arrested five mukhtars accused of forging documents on behalf of foreigners to enable them to obtain Lebanese passports....
General Security (click here) said Monday it had arrested 18 people over the past week suspected of forging travel documents....
TRIPOLI: Turkey is introducing visa requirements for Libyans, (click here) Libyan officials said Tuesday, pushing the North African country deeper into isolation.
Turkey had been one of the few countries which Libyans could without a visa and became a major holiday destination for Libyans seeking to escape the chaos and violence gripping the oil producer four years after the ousting of Moammar Gadhafi.
Libyans have struggled to get visas for European or Arab countries since most embassies left Tripoli a year ago when a rival faction to the recognised government seized the capital, Tripoli, expelling the official prime minister to eastern Libya.
Mohamed Tawil, a Foreign Ministry official from Libya's Tripoli administration, said Turkey had notified the Libyan embassy in Ankara that Libyans needed a visa from Sept 25.
"We don't know the reason," he told local al-Nabaa TV, adding that Libya would now also require Turks to get a visa....
Lebanon’s General Security (click here) announced Monday that it had arrested an ISIS
militant who had a role in the twin suicide bombings that struck the
Tripoli neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in January, leaving nine dead...
Mourners carry the coffins of men who died in a cafe where a suicide bomb attack took place in Jabal Mohsen, Tripoli.
General Security (click here) has arrested five mukhtars accused of forging documents on behalf of foreigners to enable them to obtain Lebanese passports....
General Security (click here) said Monday it had arrested 18 people over the past week suspected of forging travel documents....
TRIPOLI: Turkey is introducing visa requirements for Libyans, (click here) Libyan officials said Tuesday, pushing the North African country deeper into isolation.
Turkey had been one of the few countries which Libyans could without a visa and became a major holiday destination for Libyans seeking to escape the chaos and violence gripping the oil producer four years after the ousting of Moammar Gadhafi.
Libyans have struggled to get visas for European or Arab countries since most embassies left Tripoli a year ago when a rival faction to the recognised government seized the capital, Tripoli, expelling the official prime minister to eastern Libya.
Mohamed Tawil, a Foreign Ministry official from Libya's Tripoli administration, said Turkey had notified the Libyan embassy in Ankara that Libyans needed a visa from Sept 25.
"We don't know the reason," he told local al-Nabaa TV, adding that Libya would now also require Turks to get a visa....
Mourners carry the coffins of men who died in a cafe where a suicide bomb attack took place in Jabal Mohsen, Tripoli.
