CAIRO: Up to 150 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, were missing and feared drowned on Thursday after the boats they were travelling in capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, the…
LIBYA: The UN Security Council called on Friday for a ceasefire in Libya as the death toll from a three-month offensive on Tripoli reached 1,000, including scores killed in an air strikethat hit…
BENGHAZI: An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants near the Libyan capital early Wednesday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 130, the U.N. mission to the war-torn country…
TRIPOLI: While Libya’s oil lies at the heart of three months of fighting over Tripoli and years of power struggles before that, water is becoming a far bigger concern for its people.…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani community in Libya has been urged to stay away from conflict areas as fighting continues in Tripoli, the country’s capital. In a statement issued on Sunday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr…
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said that they were closely following the evolving situation in Libya. Ministry of Foreign Affairs was in constant contact with their Mission in Tripoli with regard…
TRIPOLI: Fighting near Tripoli has killed 121 people and wounded 561 since strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive earlier this month to take the Libyan capital, the World Health Organisation said Sunday.…
TRIPOLI: The United States military pulled a contingent of its troops from Libya on Sunday amid a surge in violence in the capital city of Tripoli, America’s top commander for Africa said.…
CAIRO: Egypt’s president says he wants a prominent militant captured in Libya this week extradited so that he can be “held accountable.” Thursday’s comments by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi were the first official…
BENGHAZI: The self-styled Libyan National Army says its troops have captured a prominent militant wanted in neighboring Egypt. In a statement posted on its Facebook page on Monday, the army said Hesham…
The Libyan authorities have deported 36 Pakistanis, who illegally entered Libya, media reports said on Wednesday. According to Libya’s Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency, the deported Pakistanis were sent to Karachi under the supervision…
UNITED NATIONS: After a month of militia clashes that left more than 100 people dead, Libya’s UN-backed foreign minister on Friday called for the country’s UN political mission to transform into a…
GENEVA: The UN decried Saturday “reliable reports” that smugglers and traffickers were impersonating its staff in Libya to target desperate migrants and refugees, and demanded action to hold them to account. The…
TRIPOLI: Some 400 prisoners escaped from a jail in Libya’s capital on Sunday while fighting between rival armed groups raged nearby, a judiciary official said as the United Nations called for the…
TRIPOLI: Hundreds of migrants have been relocated in Libya’s capital from government-run detention centers after getting trapped by clashes between rival groups, UN and aid sources said on Thursday. The migrants had…
BENGHAZI: A Libyan court has sentenced 45 people to death by firing squad over killings during the 2011 uprising that evolved into civil war. The conflict toppled and later killing the country’s…
UNITED NATIONS: UN experts say “predatory behaviour” by armed groups in Libya is posing a direct threat to forming a national government and ending lawlessness that has fueled Islamic militancy, human trafficking…
