Tag: Libya

An airliner on an internal flight in Libya was hijacked and diverted to Malta where it landed on Friday, Maltese media reported. The Airbus A320...

At least 22 Europe-bound migrants were found dead Tuesday in an overloaded wooden boat off Libya, a media photographer witnessed, on a day of...

The US military conducted air strikes in Libya on Monday following a government request to target the IS’s Libyan stronghold of Sirte, the Pentagon...

Barack Obama says the biggest mistake of his presidency was the lack of planning for the aftermath of the fall of late Libyan leader...

US warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation...

The attack bore all the traits of Islamic State in Iraq. A small unit of militants, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide belts, hit...

The bodies of 85 migrants have been found washed up on the coast of Libya, a major departure point for the sea crossing to...

Four Indian nationals have been detained in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, an Indian government spokesman said on Friday, an area which is...

A Libyan court sentenced slain dictator Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and eight other defendants to death on Tuesday for crimes during the 2011...

Libyan authorities arrested 400 illegal migrants, including several pregnant women, at dawn on Sunday as they prepared to board boats for Europe, officials said. Most...

About 400 migrants died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday, the latest tragedy in...

Three car bombs ripped through the eastern Libyan city of Qubbah on Friday, killing 40 people and wounding 70 in what officials described as...

Pope denounces slaying of 21 Egyptian Copts by IS terrorists

CAIRO:  Egypt’s military said in a statement on state television that it had carried out an air strike against Islamic State (IS) targets in Libya...

The government has facilitated evacuation of 7,040 stranded Pakistanis from Libya through chartered and commercial flights. Out of 7,040 Pakistanis, 3310 were evacuated through 13...

Libya's Supreme Court on Thursday declared the internationally recognised parliament as unconstitutional, in a ruling likely to fuel further chaos in the north African...

ISLAMABAD- Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Friday said that 226 out of a total of 300 Pakistani detainees have been released from Libyan jails since March...