One of Libya’s most notorious people smugglers, who was also a senior officer in the country’s EU-funded coast guard, has been assassinated in a “mafia-style” ambush. Abdel-Rahman Milad, who was the ...

TRIPOLI, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, April 1 (UNHCR) - UN refugee agency staff in Tripoli were on Wednesday helping hundreds of boat people rescued off the coast of Libya earlier this week as news reports ...

Whenever a political figure visits Tripoli, Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh of Libya’s internationally recognised government promises a staggering financial package of between $65bn and $70bn to ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 10 October 2014 With fighting among ...

In Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya, people used to say, “We had one enemy.” Today, “people don’t know who their enemy is.” That is how Magda Mughrabi, a Libya researcher for Amnesty International, described ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Foreigners in Libya have begun fleeing into Algeria as forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi guarded exit routes to Tunisia and Egypt, international aid groups said on Friday. The U.N.

CAIRO (Reuters) - People in Benghazi said on Wednesday they now felt safe enough to start handing in weapons recovered after security forces lost control of the eastern Libyan city. Residents said ...

The war in Libya is not going well. Muammar Gaddafi shows no sign of giving up power. His forces’ siege of the rebel-held city of Misratah has killed upwards of 1,000 people, including two Western ...

Major Abd al-Rahman Milad, also known as Al-Bidja, was killed Sunday 1 September in the town of Sayyad, 25 kilometres west of the capital Tripoli, near the Janzour Naval Academy that he commanded, ...