Libya News

The military might have been able to prevent two of the four U.S. deaths in Benghazi if commanders had known more about the intensity of the sporadic gunfire directed at the CIA installation where Americans had taken refuge and had pressed to get a rescue team there faster, according to senior military leaders.

In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo shows Libyan military guards check one of the U.S. consulate's burned buildings in Benghazi, after a deadly attack on Tuesday, Sept.

Operation El Dorado Canyon, the 1986 U.S. bombing raid against Libya, began for me with a phone call at noon on Sunday, April 13. I was a U.S. fighter pilot flying General Dynamics F-111F Aardvarks out of Royal Air Force Lakenheath in Britain.

What about the bombs raining on his brothers in Israel? Who is Erdogan's family, exactly? We know it extends beyond his fellow Turks to Arabs.

With the crisis in the Middle East escalating as Israel and Hamas continue to exchange missile fire, renewed attention has come to IsraelA s defense system, the Iron Dome.

West Wickham author Paul Bellamy has travelled always seemed to be in the wrong place in the wrong time during his travels through 94 countries.

The Cabinet has approved the closure of the Kenyan embassy in Tripoli, Libya citing political instability in the north African nation.

14, 2012, file photo shows Libyan military guards as they check one of the U.S. .

Libyan military guards check one of the U.S. consulate's burned buildings after a deadly attack on Tuesday, Sept.

After that deal, shipments from Zueitina were delayed because of damage from the blockade, while Hariga has seen only a few tanker loadings.

Libyan authorities signalled on Thursday they would press ahead with plans to move the country's parliament to the eastern port city of Benghazi despite a collapse in law and order there.

Libyan authorities signalled on Thursday they would press ahead with plans to move the country's parliament to the eastern port city of Benghazi despite a collapse in law and order there.

This May 8, 2013, file photo shows House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., left, confering with Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a House Oversight Committee hearing about the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Search and rescue operations are ongoing for survivors following the latest boat accident in the Mediterranean, this one incident off the Libyan coast of Tripoli this past Sunday, according to the United Nations Refugee agency .

At first glance, Libya's massive oil dependence looks like the country's biggest weakness.

Newly revealed testimony from top military commanders involved in the U.S. response to the Benghazi attacks suggests that the perpetrators of a second, dawn attack on a CIA complex probably were different from those who penetrated the U.S. diplomatic mission the evening before and set it ablaze, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and another ... (more)

Libya's oil industry hopes life will return to normal now that a wave of protests has ebbed, but it will take months to ramp up production and more unrest is in prospect as political chaos spreads in the North African country.

MANILA The number of Filipino repatriates from Libya is set to increase with the arrival of 27 more overseas Filipino workers in Manila on Thursday afternoon.

Libya's oil sector took another big step back to normality with the restarting of an oilfield that could double its current meager crude output, a week after blockades ended at major ports.

Italy is in talks with other European Union states about sharing the burden of rescuing migrants crossing the Mediterranean in crowded boats from North Africa, senior officials meeting in Milan said on Tuesday.