Libya
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PARIS—France will reopen its embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli next Monday to show its support for the North African country’s new authorities, President Emmanuel Macron ...
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TUNIS—At least 39 migrants died when two boats sank off Tunisia on Tuesday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, ...
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At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday.
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BERLIN—Countries with interests in Libya’s long-running civil war agreed Sunday to respect a much-violated arms embargo, hold off on military support to the warring parties and ...
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Libya’s renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar has declared a ceasefire, ending a nine-month campaign to seize the capital, Tripoli. The conditional ceasefire in the western region of ...
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President Erdogan of Turkey said on Sunday, Jan. 5, that the country is deploying forces in Libya at the request of the UN-approved Government of National ...
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The U.S. military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya’s capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and ...
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At least seven workers were killed and another 35 wounded in an airstrike that hit a biscuit factory.
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A drone airstrike by eastern Libyan forces on the southern Libyan town of Murzuq has killed at least 43 people.
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An estimated 170 migrants have been lost in the Mediterranean in two incidents involving dinghies that left from Libya and Morocco, migrant organizations said on Jan. ...
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TRIPOLI—At least three people were killed when suicide bombers attacked Libya’s foreign ministry in Tripoli on Dec. 25, the health ministry said. The assailants were suspected ...
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MISRATA, Libya—Libya will return to Egypt on Monday the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians killed in 2015 by ISIS in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte, ...
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BENGHAZI, Libya–A double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday left at least 33 people dead and dozens more wounded, including senior ...
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United States forces carried out six precision air strikes against an ISIS desert camp in Libya on Friday, Sept. 22, killing 17 ISIS militants and destroying ...
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Othman Belbeisi, Libya head of the International Organization for Migration, reported on April 11 that people fleeing war and starvation in West Africa are being sold ...
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Rescue boats brought in 700 migrants from flimsy boats along the north African coast. The rescue was a team effort, led by the Italian coast guard. ...
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