The Libyan militant accused by Washington in the killing of the U.S. ambassador told The Associated Press on Monday he's not worried about being next on the list for capture by the Americans after the U.S. commando raid that spirited a senior al-Qaida suspect out of Tripoli.
The family of a man, captured by US forces in Libya for his alleged role in the bombings of two American Embassies in Africa more than a decade ago, has denounced his arrest as an ‘act of piracy.’
Deep in Libya's southern Sahara, tribal sheikhs crowded into a Bedouin tent last month to declare their remote province bordering Algeria would break away from the government in far-off Tripoli.
At least 15 Libyan soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in an attack on a military checkpoint in the southeast of the North African country.
Before many African migrants can even begin the perilous sea crossing to Europe they must pass through Libya, where they face exploitation or arrest by often brutal militias.
A group of unidentified armed men has stormed the Russian Embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, but no embassy staff member has been injured or killed in the incident.
The UN has warned about widespread torture in Libyan detention centers run by revolutionaries who took arms against former dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has appeared in a court in the country’s western town of Zintan accused of “harming state security,” during the 2011 revolution that overthrew his father.
A Libyan police officer has been killed in a car bomb attack in the country’s eastern city of Benghazi, the latest in a series of violent attacks in the North African country.
The UN Security Council's committee on Libyan sanctions says caches of weapons and ammunition left over in the African country after the collapse of slain dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, are being smuggled into Syria.
The UN Security Council's committee on Libyan sanctions says caches of weapons and ammunition left over in the African country after the collapse of slain dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, are being smuggled into Syria.
A blockade by armed groups on key Libyan oilfields and terminals has paralyzed the North African country’s oil industry, choking output to a tenth of normal levels.
Libya’s oil industry has been paralyzed by a blockade of its oil fields under the control of armed groups, making the North African country reduce its output to a tenth of normal levels.