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The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said today she is "deeply troubled" by the escalating violence in Libya, and called on all parties to refrain from committing criminal acts that may fall within the jurisdiction of the Court.

Under a 2009 agreement, Libya also agreed to allow Italian coastguard to stop boatloads of African migrants on the seas and forcibly return them to Libya.

Black plumes of smoke marked shell blasts and bulldozed earthen barricades mapped out the frontlines around Tripoli's largest airport, now at the heart of a standoff between the country's powerful militias.

Armed men abducted a well-known Libyan political activist in the country's capital, his father said Friday, the latest in rampant attacks that have targeted officials, activists and foreigners in the strife-torn nation.

The Sanussi decision comes out at a time when the challenges facing Libya's justice system continue to mount at an alarming pace.

A conference launching a new committee to follow up on the case of Shiite Imam Musa Sadr's disappearance.

Heavy black smoke rose over southern Tripoli on Thursday after rival militias exchanged artillery and rocket fire in a battle over the Libyan capital's airport that has killed more than 50 people in nearly a fortnight of fighting.

"We have your back," President Obama told Israelis when he visited the embattled country recently.

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have upheld a decision that allows Libyan authorities to put on trial a former intelligence chief from Moammar Gadhafi's era.

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court have upheld a decision that allows Libyan authorities to put on trial a former intelligence chief from Moammar Gadhafi's era.

Judge Kuenyehia from Ghana, back row center, sits in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, July 24, 2014.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry urges the country's citizens to leave Libya and to refrain from traveling to this country due to the unstable situation there, Turkish Milliyet newspaper reported on July 24. After the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, the armed clashes between the army special forces and the paramilitaries, controlling the ... (more)

The bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie was premeditated mass murder. Gadhafi was taking revenge for Reagan's raid on Tripoli in 1986.

Children play on a tank in the remains of what used to be Muammar Gaddafi's Bab-al-Azzizeya compound in Libya's capital, Tripoli .

Two Libyan soldiers inspect shrapnel marks on a wall on July 22, 2014 after a double suicide bombing on a military base in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed at least four soldiers, military and medical officials said.

In Africa, the entire Sahel region is awash with weapons that include portable air defense systems leftover from the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi.

A twin suicide bombing at a Libyan army base in Benghazi killed at least four solders in an escalation of clashes between Islamist militants and regular forces battling to oust them from the eastern city.

The downing of KAL 007, flying from Anchorage to Seoul, was mass murder in the second degree .

Islamist militants attacked an army base in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday, triggering fierce clashes involving helicopters and jets that killed at least seven people and wounded 40 others, residents and security sources said.

At least seven people have been killed and 40 others wounded after assailants attacked an army base in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, residents and security sources say.