The move comes after the forces of UN-recognised government recently recaptured most of the territory held by Khalifa Haftar's illegal militias in northwest Libya, ending the warlord's 14-month ...

Islamic State fighters had overrun the Abu Grain checkpoint, town and several nearby villages after carrying out coordinated suicide bomb attacks on May 5. Three members of the armed forces were ...

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Next to the rusting shell cases outside Misrata's museum of Libya's 2011 uprising is a new addition: a scaffold used by Islamic State in Sirte to display bodies of executed ...

Armed clashes erupted in the western Libyan city of Misrata and continued into the early hours of Friday, in the latest episode of the city’s long-running struggle for security dominance among rival ...

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TRIPOLI, Libya -- U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Monday that the Libyan government has promised her access to the besieged rebel city of Misrata, but with no guarantees that the assault by ...

The Port of the Misrata Free Zone received the giant container ship “GUO ZHI HAI,” operated by the global shipping line ...

Libya signed a partnership deal that involves Qatari, Italian and Swiss companies to expand and develop the Misrata Free Zone port terminal on the Mediterranean, the OPEC member said. The deal aims to ...