The aid organisations and refugees said at least two Libyan coastguard officers stole mobile phones and money from passengers... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Contrary to popular impression, the Libyan government does not turn a complete blind eye to people-smuggling... READ MORE›
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›
"We have never had to deal with so many people at the same time," Jugend Rettet Iuventa spokeswoman Pauline Schmidt told AFP... READ MORE›
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›
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›
So far this year, at least 3,654 refugees have died while trying to reach Europe on perilous journeys... READ MORE›
Libyan officials have recovered 105 bodies after a migrant boat sank on Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea... READ MORE›
According to the group, about 240 migrants left the Libyan port city of Tobruk heading for Italy... READ MORE›
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›
More refugees dead in Mediterranean Sea this year than all of 2015... READ MORE›
Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for the United Nations refugee agency in Italy, said that migrants had been swallowed up by the waves... READ MORE›
Four suspected people-smugglers were killed in an exchange of gunfire with the Libyan coastguard off western Libya on Thursday... READ MORE›
Survivors were taken to the Italian ports of Taranto on the mainland and Pozzallo on the island of Sicily... READ MORE›
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy has tried for months to force the European Union to focus on Libya... READ MORE›
The going rate between Agadez and Libya is thought to be about 150,000 West African francs CFA, or ?166... READ MORE›
Special forces working alongside their US counterparts in Misrata to stop the jihadists rsquo progress... READ MORE›
At least 3,034 refugees have died en route to Europe so far in 2016, a sharp increase from last year, says the IOM... READ MORE›
The NATO deployment is aimed at cutting off the Aegean Sea route used by hundreds of thousands of migrants to reached Europe since last year... READ MORE›
The US carries out air strikes on so-called Islamic State in Libya, targeting a top militant linked to an attack on Tunisia that killed 30 Britons... READ MORE›
Mr Johnson was in Italy for talks about Britain's decision to abandon the European Union... READ MORE›
Libya's coast guard intercepted at least 1,131 migrants near the western city of Sabratha over the course of a week, a spokesman said on Saturday... READ MORE›
The UN refugee agency says over 700 migrants are feared dead in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy... READ MORE›
Prosecutors said he had steered the fishing boat into a Portuguese freighter, the King Jacob, off the Italian island of Lampedusa... READ MORE›
The operatives who carried out deadly attacks against tourists in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse last year are thought to have been trained in Libya... READ MORE›
The toddler, later identified as Muhammad Hasan, is now reported to be in good health and has been reunited with his mother, Lorin Halef... READ MORE›
Four years after the revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, Libya still has no national army... READ MORE›
(Reporting by Gavin Jones; Editing by Julia Glover) Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters... READ MORE›
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