Libya

Migrant rescue mission must extend closer to Libya: Amnesty International

European efforts to save the lives of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean must involve search and...

Apr 25, 2015 08:13 PM EDT

Murder and abuse before deadly migrant crossing

Italian investigators are piecing together a picture of beatings and abuse that hundreds of Africans...

Apr 25, 2015 06:58 AM EDT

Prosecutors blame captain for causing deaths in migrant shipwreck

Prosecutors blamed the Tunisian captain of a fishing boat for causing the deaths of hundreds of migr...

Apr 21, 2015 10:11 AM EDT

Shipwrecked bodies brought ashore, EU proposes doubling rescue effort

The European Union proposed doubling the size of its Mediterranean search and rescue operations on M...

Apr 20, 2015 06:38 PM EDT

Islamic State shoots and beheads 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya: video

A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to sho...

Apr 20, 2015 10:27 AM EDT

Obama, Tunisia's Essebsi to meet in wake of attack, elections

U.S President Barack Obama and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will meet in Washington next mon...

Apr 20, 2015 10:19 AM EDT

EU meets on migrant crisis as shipwreck corpses brought ashore

European Union foreign ministers gathered in Luxembourg on Monday under pressure to produce more tha...

Apr 20, 2015 08:16 AM EDT

Hundreds drown off Libya, EU leaders forced to reconsider migrant crisis

As many as 700 migrants were feared dead on Sunday after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, r...

Apr 19, 2015 06:22 PM EDT

Tunisia arrests more suspected militants for Bardo attack

Tunisian security forces have arrested 23 more suspected Islamist militants as part of a crackdown a...

Apr 04, 2015 06:58 AM EDT

Arab summit agrees on unified military force for crises

Arab leaders at a summit in Egypt announced the formation of a unified military force to counter gro...

Mar 29, 2015 09:35 AM EDT

Libya tells Arab summit arms embargo must be lifted to fight IS

Libya told an Arab summit on Saturday that a U.N. arms embargo on the country must be lifted to help...

Mar 29, 2015 01:05 AM EDT

Arab League to discuss Yemen intervention plea on Thursday

The Arab League will discuss the crisis in Yemen on Thursday, the regional body's deputy secretary g...

Mar 25, 2015 10:12 AM EDT

Libya could agree on unity government leaders this week: U.N. envoy

Libya's warring groups could agree this week on the leaders of a national unity government to try to...

Mar 24, 2015 08:30 AM EDT

Tunisian president says third suspect in museum attack on the run

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Sunday that a third gunman involved in an attack that ...

Mar 22, 2015 05:50 PM EDT

'Huge gaps' in Clinton email record, Benghazi probe chief says

Huge gaps exist in the emails former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has provided to a congr...

Mar 08, 2015 06:29 PM EDT

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