A new video from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) purportedly shows the group killing captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya. The 29-minute video released online on Sunday shows two groups of dark-skinned captives. It says one group is held by an ISIL affiliate in eastern Libya and[…]
The military chief of Libya’s UN-recognised government has expressed doubt about UN-backed talks in Morocco aimed at ending the country’s political split and said that he is “betting on a military solution” if a deal remains elusive. General Khalifa Haftar’s comments in a TV interview on Tuesday underscored the obstacles[…]
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Libya will inflitrate Europe if the West fails to support Libyan forces with arms and ammunition, a top Libyan army officer has said. General Khalifa Haftar, the army chief of Libya’s internationally recognised government, said ISIL had seized[…]
The two radical gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before carrying out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian security official said. Wednesday’s attack at the National Bardo Museum killed 21 people – 17 of them cruise ship tourists – before the two[…]
Radicals from Libya’s Islamic State affiliate abducted nine foreigners, including four Filipinos, in an attack on a central oil field last week, and beheaded eight Libyan guards, officials said Monday. The attack last Friday on the al-Ghani oil field near the town of Zalla, some 750 kilometers (470 miles) southeast[…]
The international community should not follow Egypt and others in siding with anti-Islamists in the Libyan conflict, but should push both warring sides much harder towards a political agreement, a leading think tank said Thursday. Libya has been in turmoil since the NATO-backed overthrow of longtime leader Moamer Gaddafi in[…]
An Egyptian border official says some 20,000 Egyptians have fled Libya since the release of a grisly beheading video by Islamic State radicals. The video, showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, prompted Cairo to launch retaliatory airstrikes and ban Egyptians from traveling to the increasingly volatile North African country.[…]
A massive car bomb struck a town in eastern Libya under control of the country’s internationally recognized government on Friday, killing at least 30 people, according to an army spokesman who blamed radicals for the attack. The bombing underscored the utter turmoil this North Africa country has sunk into. It[…]
Two of the most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council are rejecting Libya’s call to lift a U.N. arms embargo so it can defend itself against the Islamic State group. The United States and Britain say the chaotic country needs a national unity government first. Libya’s foreign minister[…]
Libya’s foreign minister on Wednesday demanded that the U.N. Security Council lift an arms embargo so his country can fight the Islamic State group as it establishes a presence in north Africa and moves closer to Europe. Foreign Minister Mohammed al Dairi spoke to an emergency session of the council[…]
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