LIBYAN PLANE HIJACKERS CHARGED WITH TERRORISM AT MALTA COURT

The two Libyan men, 28-year-old Ali Saleh and 27-year-old Moussa Soko, arrived at Malta Law Courts on Sunday noon, escorted by armed guards... READ MORE›

ALL PASSENGERS ARE SAFE AFTER LIBYAN JET IS HIJACKED

Libyan officials, though, believed the hijackers had more personal goals... READ MORE›

MIGRANT DEATHS IN MEDITERRANEAN TOPS RECORD 5,000 THIS YEAR

So far this year, about 359,000 migrants and refugeesA fleeing war-torn areas of the Middle East and AfricaA have reached Europe by sea, according to IOM figures... READ MORE›

HIJACKED LIBYAN PLANE LANDS IN MALTA

The Airbus A320 had been on a domestic Libyan route operated by Afriqiyah Airways from Sabha in the south to the capital Tripoli but was re-routed... READ MORE›

#AFRIQIYAH HOSTAGE CRISIS: HIJACKERS SURRENDER IN MALTA, ALL 118 ON BOARD RELEASED (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

Hijackers surrendered, searched and taken in custody, tweeted Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat after a protracted hostage situation... READ MORE›

LIBYA MALTA HIJACK: HIJACKERS ARRESTED

The hijackers of a Libyan jet with 118 people aboard are arrested at Malta International Airport... READ MORE›

HIJACKED LIBYAN PLANE DIVERTED TO MALTA WITH 118 ABOARD, PROMPTING AIRPORT STANDOFF

The Maltese prime minister, Joseph Muscat, tweeted Informed of potential hijack situation of a Libya internal flight diverted to Malta... READ MORE›

HOMELESS MAN SUFFERS BURNS IN CAR 'ARSON ATTACK'

A year after Libya's rival parties signed a UN-sponsored political agreement, the North African country still suffers a political division and unrest... READ MORE›

LIFE IN TUNISIA'S CLOSED REFUGEE CAMP

Life in Tunisia's closed refugee camp 'I lost my mind'... READ MORE›

TUNISIAN CAPTAIN IN DEADLY MIGRANT SHIPWRECK JAILED FOR 18 YEARS

Prosecutors said he had steered the fishing boat into a Portuguese freighter, the King Jacob, off the Italian island of Lampedusa... READ MORE›

MIGRANTS IN LIBYA FACING 'HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS'

Report urged Libyan authorities to immediately release the most vulnerable migrants, to provide protection from abuse and to prosecute human trafficking and smuggling offences... READ MORE›

TUNISIAN PRESIDENT ON THE ARAB SPRING, FOREIGN AID AND LIBYA

What do you expect from the EU-Tunisia summit, do you consider that the European Union has sufficiently helped?... READ MORE›

LIBYA COULD BECOME EVEN MORE CHAOTIC AFTER THE ISLAMIC STATE LOSES ITS STRONGHOLD

In early 2015, in alliance with other radical factions, the Islamic State's affiliate seized parts of Sirte, situated in the heart of Libya's oil crescent... READ MORE›

LIBYAN TROOPS CLEARING SIRTE OF REMAINING ISIL FIGHTERS

Even in Tripoli, the unity government's rule is far from secure, with a third rival administration backed by hardline armed groups recently attempting a comeback... READ MORE›

LIBYAN FORCES CLEAR LAST ISLAMIC STATE HOLDOUT IN SIRTE

Libyan and Western officials say some Islamic State fighters escaped from Sirte before the battle or in its early stages... READ MORE›

LIBYAN FORCES CLAIM CONTROL OF ISIL STRONGHOLD OF SIRTE

Hundreds of loyalist troops and unknown number of ISIL fighters killed as pro-government forces seize coastal city... READ MORE›

WOMEN, CHILDREN LEAVE ISLAMIC STATE HOLDOUT IN SIRTE

Forces led by brigades from Misrata and backed by U.S. air strikes have surrounded Islamic State fighters in a small patch of ground close to Sirte's Mediterranean sea front... READ MORE›

TUNISIA'S PRESIDENT SEEKS SUPPORT IN BRUSSELS

Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt have direct contact with Libya on three levels security, geographical and economic levels, said El Beiji Kaed Essebssi... READ MORE›

MIGRANT BOAT TRAFFIC FROM LIBYA TO EUROPE IS SURGING AND TURNING DEADLIER

In a deal with the European Union that went into effect in April, Turkey agreed to stem the flow in return for more E.U... READ MORE›

FROM AFRICA TO ITALY: HOW EUROPE'S MIGRANT CRISIS IS FORGING STRONG NEW FAMILY BONDS

Tortello volunteered to take in Mamadou Sissoku, a refugee from Mali, after meeting him at a refugee centre, where her daughter Lana was teaching Italian... READ MORE›

REPORTER WITNESSES RESCUE OF 550 MIGRANTS

Coloradoan reporter Jason Pohl is embedded with two Poudre Fire Authority firefightersA on a boat in the Mediterranean, assisting with rescues of refugees... READ MORE›

MONKEY ATTACK SETS OFF DEADLY TRIBAL CLASHES IN LIBYA

Days of deadly tribal clashes have erupted in southern Libya after a pet monkey attacked a high school girl... READ MORE›

FRANCE'S NICOLAS SARKOZY FACES GADDAFI PAYMENT CLAIMS

France-Lebanese businessman tells French news site he delivered cash from late Libyan leader in 2006 and 2007... READ MORE›

IN LIBYA, UNITED STATES LAYS PLANS TO HUNT DOWN ESCAPED ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS

Even if the United States can hunt down escaped militants outside Sirte, it's unlikely to signal an end to the Islamic State's most powerful affiliate... READ MORE›

CLINTON COALITION THAT COULD TRIGGER WWIII

Bent on 'genocide', would lead to a more democratic Libya with major advances in human rights, liberal... READ MORE›

TWO ITALIAN WORKERS AND A CANADIAN FREED AFTER LIBYA KIDNAP

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi thanked everyone who played a role in the men's release, especially the authorities and security forces in Libya... READ MORE›

GAMBIA GOALKEEPER WHO DIED IN MEDITERRANEAN WANTED TO PLAY IN EUROPE

Bakery Jatta, a Gambian teenager who reached Germany via the Sahara and the Mediterranean in 2014, was recently signed by the German football club Hamburg... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS DIE IN LIBYA SHIPWRECKS

Hundreds of migrants die in Libya shipwrecks UN... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 239 MIGRANTS BELIEVED DROWNED IN MEDITERRANEAN UN SAYS

Survivor accounts suggest that two crowded boats broke up just off the Libyan coast Wednesday, said Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for the U.N... READ MORE›

AS MANY AS 240 DEAD IN LATEST MEDITERRANEAN SHIPWRECKS, SAYS UN

Survivors' accounts from two separate shipwrecks add to an already record death toll this year on the Mediterranean Sea, the UN reported Thursday... READ MORE›

WHICH COUNTRY IS THE MOST GENEROUS IN THE WORLD?

A new table claims Iraqis are the kindest to strangers, while Myanmar is the most generous country on earth... READ MORE›

U.S. HAS SECRETLY EXPANDED ITS GLOBAL NETWORK OF DRONE BASES TO NORTH AFRICA

Drones flown from a new base in Tunisia are collecting intelligence on Islamic State sites in Libya... READ MORE›

5 YEARS SINCE GADDAFI'S KILLING, LIBYA STILL SOAKED IN BLOOD, BUT NO SIGN OF LIBERTY TREE GROWING

5 years since Gaddafi's killing, Libya still soaked in blood, but no sign of liberty tree growing -- RT News... READ MORE›

LIBYA ON BRINK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

Libya's daily oil production before the 2011 uprising stood at 1.6 million barrels... READ MORE›

DUTCH JOURNALIST JEROEN OERLEMANS DIES IN SIRTE

Fighting on Sunday killed at least 10 ISIL fighters and eight pro-government fighters around Sirte, the Tripoli-based GNA said... READ MORE›

LIBYA BOATS CAPSIZE OFF ZUWARA CARRYING HUNDREDS

Hundreds of people are feared dead after two boats carrying up to 500 migrants capsized off the Libyan city of Zuwara, residents and officials say... READ MORE›

ALMOST 100 MISSING FROM WRECKED MIGRANT BOAT OFF LIBYA

Ayoub Gassim, a Navy spokesman in Tripoli, said a survivor reported that 126 people set off Wednesday from Garabulli in northwest Libya, The Guardian reported... READ MORE›

LIBYA WARNS IT COULD FLOOD EUROPE WITH MIGRANTS IF EU DOES NOT RECOGNISE NEW ISLAMIST GOVERNMENT

Contrary to popular impression, the Libyan government does not turn a complete blind eye to people-smuggling... READ MORE›

EGYPT BOMBS IS IN LIBYA AFTER BEHEADINGS VIDEO

Libya is home to a large community of both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians, with most working in the construction sector... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS FEARED DEAD IN REFUGEE SHIPWRECKS OFF LIBYA

As many as 239 people are feared dead in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, according to the United Nations refugee agency... READ MORE›

Fighters under the banner of the Tripolitania Province of the Islamic State announced last month that they were holding about 20 Egyptian Christians, or Copts... READ MORE›

CHIEF OF ISLAMIC STATE IN LIBYA THOUGHT TO BE KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE

Before going to Libya, Zubaidi was a senior Islamic State operative in Iraq... READ MORE›

SISI WARNS OF RESPONSE AFTER ISLAMIC STATE KILLS 21 EGYPTIANS IN LIBYA

CONCERNS ABOUT LIBYA Egypt, the most populous Arab state, has not taken part directly in the U... READ MORE›

US AIRSTRIKES ON ISIS CAMP IN LIBYA KILL AT LEAST 41

For weeks, America and allied Western officials have mulled a possible air campaign against the Islamic State in Libya, particularly around the town of Surt... READ MORE›

A LIBYAN ARMS DEALER CHASED BY GADDAFI'S LEGACY

Anwar Sawan, 45, provides arms and supplies to militias in Misurata, Libya, that are combating the Islamic State's Libyan affiliate in the coastal city of Sirte... READ MORE›

TOP ISLAMIST 'KILLED' IN US STRIKE

The Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant in 2013 has been killed in a US air strike, Libyan officials say... READ MORE›

ISIS BEHEADING OF COPTIC CHRISTIANS ON LIBYAN BEACH BRINGS ISLAMISTS TO THE DOORSTEP OF EUROPE

, which provoked a volley of Egyptian air strikes on the group's Libyan stronghold of Derna, realised long-held fears of militants reaching the Mediterranean coast... READ MORE›

DOZENS DIE IN HOLD OF LIBYA BOAT

At least 40 migrants are found to have died in the hold of a crowded fishing boat intercepted off the Libyan coast, the Italian navy says... READ MORE›

SCORES OF EUROPE-BOUND REFUGEES DROWN OFF LIBYAN COAST

Bad weather, flimsy boats, and the fact that refugees are increasingly taking the hazardous central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy has lifted the death toll... READ MORE›

MEET THE ERITREA REFUGEE TURNED RESCUE VOLUNTEER

So far this year, at least 3,654 refugees have died while trying to reach Europe on perilous journeys... READ MORE›

EUROPE SHOULD BE 'ASHAMED' OF MIGRANT CRISIS

Libyan officials have recovered 105 bodies after a migrant boat sank on Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea... READ MORE›

EGYPT SEEKS UN MANDATE FOR LIBYA ISLAMIC STATE INTERVENTION

Libya is home to a large community of both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians, with most working in the construction sector... READ MORE›

KHALIFA HAFTAR FORCES SEIZES OIL PORT BREGA IN LIBYA

The GNA called on loyalist forces to protect and defend the ports against what it called a flagrant aggression of Libya's sovereignty... READ MORE›

LIBYA AFTERMATH 'WORST MISTAKE' OF PRESIDENCY

US President Barack Obama says the worst mistake of his presidency was failing to prepare for the aftermath of toppling Libyan leader Col Gaddafi... READ MORE›

IS SETTING UP LIBYA CAMPS, US SAYS

Libya after Gaddafi Islamic State militants have set up training camps in eastern Libya, the head of the US Africa command says... READ MORE›

ATTACK BROUGHT CHAOS HOME TO BENGHAZI RESIDENTS

CAIRO -- Scores of anti-Islamist demonstrators gathered last week in downtown Benghazi, Libya, to protest a proposed unity government... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS DEAD AFTER CAPSIZE, SAY SURVIVORS

According to the group, about 240 migrants left the Libyan port city of Tobruk heading for Italy... READ MORE›

CRACKDOWN IN NIGER FAILS TO DETER MIGRANT SMUGGLERS

As many as 2,000 migrants leave Agadez weekly, the last big stop before reaching Libya, 620 miles away across the scorching sand... READ MORE›

ISIS LEADER IN LIBYA PRESUMED KILLED BY U.S. AIRSTRIKE

The official said the operation began before the Paris attacks and was not related to that event... READ MORE›

FORCES LOYAL TO KHALIFA HAFTAR ATTACK PORTS IN LIBYA

Rebel commander's forces assault Zueitina, Ras Lanuf, and Es Sider oil ports in Libya's oil crescent, witnesses say... READ MORE›