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