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Libya's internationally recognized Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, right, meets with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, second from the left, in Tripoli, Libya Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (Libyan Government via AP)

Italy’s FM meets with Libya rivals to push for end to war

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2020 file photo, Fayez Sarraj, the head of Libya's internationally-recognized government, speaks at a joint news conference with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara, Turkey. Libya’s U.N.-supported government Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, announced a cease-fire across the oil-rich country and called for demilitarizing the strategic city of Sirte, which is controlled by rival forces. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

UN expresses concern over ‘dramatic turn’ in Libya crisis

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, July 25, 2020 file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Fayez Sarraj, the head of Libya's internationally-recognized government, pose for photographs prior to their talks in Istanbul. Turkey is secretly expanding its footprint in conflict-ridden Libya, fueling the country’s civil war and deepening fault lines with Mediterranean neighbors and between international allies. Turkey seems to be after lucrative construction and port contracts, according to Libyan officials. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool, File)

Joining the conflict in Libya, Turkey sees economic gains

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Foreign and defense ministers of Russia and Turkey met as part of an effort by Moscow and Ankara to sponsor Monday's talks between rival parties in Libya in the Russian capital. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Russia downplays failed Libya talks before Berlin summit

By DARIA LITVINOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) ** FILE **

U.N.-supported Libya government welcomes civil war truce calls

By Noha Elhennawy - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2017 file photo, Libyan militia commander General Khalifa Hifter, top center, listens to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, bottom center, during their meeting in Moscow, Russia. Officials in Libya’s U.N.-backed administration say they plan to present evidence to Moscow of Russian mercenaries fighting alongside their adversary in their country’s war. Libyan officials say up to 800 fighters from the Russian private security contractor Wagner Group have joined the forces of Hifter, the commander of forces battling for months trying to capture Libya’s capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Libyan PM unfazed by commander’s zero hour Tripoli push

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 3, 2019, file photo, debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya. The government of Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj has been battling for months to keep control of the capital of Tripoli amid an offensive by forces aligned with a rival authority based in the country’s eastern portion. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

AP Explains: Libya’s instability a focus of concern at UN

By DREW CALLISTER and NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Sarraj met Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte Tuesday in Rome. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Head of Libya UN-backed gov’t says rival wants to take power

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French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and new French armed forces chief of staff Francois Lecointre review an honor guard at the air force base in Istres, southern France, Thursday, July 20, 2017. Macron's visit to the Istres air base Thursday comes the day after the head of the French military quit in a dispute with Macron over budget cuts. (Arnold Jerocki, Pool via AP)

France bringing top Libyan rivals together in new initiative

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press