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…
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Hillary Clinton has given her most detailed account yet of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, but said she will not join the “political slugfest” over the tragedy. In excerpts from her forthcoming memoir “Hard Choices…
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…
Norway’s Yara, the world’s biggest mineral fertiliser producer, said Wednesday it had been hit with a hefty fine by Norwegian authorities following an international corruption investigation. The firm said it would not contest the 295-million-kroner (…
Goals from Elmutasem Abushnaf and Abdel Salam Omar gave Libya a perfect start as they beat Ethiopia 2-0 in Bloemfontein…
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…