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Seven African migrants died, apparently from suffocation, after being locked for two days in a refrigerated truck that was abandoned by people smugglers on the Read more
CAIRO – Libyan Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked to Al-Qaeda, is formally dissolving itself, it said in a statement on Saturday. The group, Read more
Reports suggest as many as 140 people, including civilians, may have died in an attack on an airbase in Libya. It was originally thought 60 Read more
Libyan fishermen found the bodies of 28 illegal migrants who appeared to have died of thirst and hunger after their boat broke down off the Read more
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is reporting a disturbing new trend in people smuggling in Libya – migrants being bought and sold as slaves. Read more
At least 155 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya barely two weeks after 171 returned home from the north African country. They were brought into Read more
WASHINGTON/CAIRO – Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent days, U.S., Egyptian and Read more
GENEVA – Fighting between rival people-smuggling gangs on Libya’s Mediterranean coast has killed 22 people, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. The dead Read more
CATANIA, Italy – Almost 1,300 migrants arrived in Sicily on rescue ships over the weekend after crossing the Mediterranean, while a 16-year-old boy died on one Read more
BENGHAZI, Libya – An armed faction entered two major Libyan oil ports on Friday, pushing back forces that captured and reopened the terminals in September, officials Read more
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – In a cluster of luxury residences that survived Tripoli’s battles almost unscathed, a self-declared defender of Libya’s revolution has set up base Read more
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A Philippine nurse held by Islamic State in the Libyan city of Sirte said on Monday that she and her colleagues had Read more
The bodies of 27 migrants have been recovered in Western Libya, 13 of whom died of suffocation in a shipping container, the Red Crescent said Read more
GENEVA (Reuters) – The trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a son of the ousted Libyan leader sentenced to death in absentia, did not meet international Read more
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The bodies of 74 migrants have been found washed up on a beach near the western Libya city of Zawiya, a Red Read more
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A convoy carrying the prime minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed government and the two leaders of an allied parliament and presidential guard came Read more
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s coast guard intercepted at least 1,131 migrants near the western city of Sabratha over the course of a week, a spokesman Read more
Nigeria has advised migrants to avoid Libya where penalty for illegal migration attracts death penalty. The office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President Read more
An overnight U.S. precision airstrikes on two Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant training camps near Sirte, Libya, are estimated to have killed more Read more
ROME (Reuters) – Italy is sending its ambassador back to Libya, its foreign ministry said on Monday, making it the first Western diplomatic mission to Read more
Forces allied to Libya’s eastern government carried out an air strike against a military transport aircraft in the central district of Jufra on Tuesday, wounding Read more
By Ahmed Elumami and Ayman al-Warfalli TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Forces allied to Libya’s eastern government carried out an air strike against a military transport Read more
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya was producing 685,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) on Sunday, up from around 600,000 a day last month, an official Read more
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has confirmed that 65 passengers have been released from a Libyan plane owned by Afriqiyah Airways that was hijacked to Read more
An airliner on an internal flight in Libya was hijacked by a man claiming to have a hand grenade on Friday and diverted to Malta, Read more
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan forces said on Monday they were close to securing a final patch of land where Islamic State have been holding Read more
By Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Rival armed groups battled overnight and into Friday in the worst outbreak of fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli Read more
By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) – The United States is “watching very carefully” for Islamic State militants operating outside Sirte as the jihadist group faces Read more
By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar, the dominant figure in the divided country’s east, met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Read more
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A Tunisian woman who Libyan authorities said they had arrested and was married to veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar is not Read more
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