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Italy’s Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni has disclosed the country may send navy ships to fight migrant traffickers in the Mediterranean…

France will host talks on Tuesday between Fayez al-Serraj, head of Libya’s UN-backed government in Tripoli, and Khalifa Haftar, a…

United Nations (UN) Security Council has given its backing to Libya’s new government of national unity, a move it hopes…

Libya’s rival factions have agreed to sign a United Nations-backed deal for government of national unity, but questions over whether…

Rival Libyans have agreed to sign a UN-backed national unity government deal following months of negotiations, the UN special envoy…

For the past year and a half, rival militias loyal to rival goverments in Libya, have been fighting what has…

At least 82 people have been killed and more than one hundred others are still missing after a boat, reportedly…

A boat reportedly packed with people from Africa and South Asia bound for Italy has sunk off the Libyan coast,…

A rogue general, whose repeated deadly assaults on jihadists in Libya’s second city Benghazi have earned him threats of reprisal, escaped a suicide bombing Wednesday, one of his commanders said. But three loyalists of former general and longtime US…

The United States is deploying an amphibious assault ship with about 1,000 marines off the coast of Libya in case the US embassy must be evacuated, a US defense official said Tuesday. The USS Bataan was to be in the area “in a matter of days,” said…

Libya’s navy said Monday it had intercepted and rescued 340 illegal migrants off the coast of the western town of Sabratha when their boat began to take on water. The rescue came on the same day Italy’s navy said at least 14 migrants had died when their…

Ten migrants have died among some 300 abandoned by smugglers in the scorching Sudanese-Libyan desert, with the others in poor condition, Sudanese officials said Wednesday. “They are hungry and thirsty,” Abdelaziz Hassan Salih, a senior official of Sudan…

The United States on Monday denounced as “unconscionable” threats made against the Libyan prime minister and cabinet members, saying the country needed to move forward. “At a time when Libya most needs political consensus to move forward its democratic…

A jihadist group in Libya says it plans to take over security in the restive eastern town of Derna and impose sharia Islamic law, in a posting on Facebook. Witnesses said the group “Majlis Shura of Islamist Youth in Derna” staged a show of force on…

Fighting between rival tribes in southern Libya killed 19 people Saturday and wounded another 20, a local official said. “Violent confrontations broke out between Toubous and Awled Sleiman early this morning,” Ayoub al-Zarrouk, chief of the local council…

Libya’s General National Congress on Tuesday failed to agree on what action to take about the embattled government of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, a member said. His administration has been under fire for failing to tackle security problems and end an…

Libya’s navy has stopped two oil tankers from entering Al-Sedra port, the site of a months-long dispute between protesting guards and the government, its National Oil Corporation said Monday. “The Libyan naval forces on Sunday prevented… a Maltese…

A New Zealand woman found murdered with a British companion in Libya was a mother of two visiting her boyfriend, according to media reports Sunday. The New Zealand foreign ministry confirmed the woman’s name as Lynn Howie and said her family had requested…

Production at two oilfields in southern Libya has restarted after it was suspended for several months, a national oil company official said on Monday. Mohamed al-Harairi of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) told AFP the Sarir and Msala oilfields…

Gunmen on Sunday killed a former security officer who served under slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi in the violence-ridden eastern city of Benghazi, security and medical sources said. “Retired colonel Muftah Najem was shot dead,” said a spokeswoman for…