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January 22, 2020 at 5:23 am

Tripoli’s main airport halts flights after shelling, threats

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The only functioning airport in Libya’s capital closed Wednesday after coming under attack, despite a tenuous truce that world powers have...

January 20, 2020 at 7:57 am

Libyan oil fields remain shut, testing peace summit

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s major oil fields and production facilities remained closed on Monday, its national oil company said, in a sign that the...

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January 18, 2020 at 6:23 am

Libya’s eastern-based forces move to halt oil exports

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — A move by Libya's east-based forces to choke off oil exports from its territory threatens to throttle much of the country’s...

January 11, 2020 at 10:03 pm

Libya truce holds amid reports of violations by both sides

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya's rival governments were sticking to an internationally brokered cease-fire that began Sunday, even as immediate reports of violations by both...

January 6, 2020 at 10:56 am

Libya’s east-based forces say key coastal city captured

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya's east-based forces said they captured the strategic coastal city of Sirte on Monday from the U.N.-recognized government in Tripoli. The...

December 22, 2019 at 2:38 am

Libya’s east-based forces seize ship with Turkish crew

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya's forces based in the country's east say they have seized a ship with Turkish crew members amid tensions in the...

October 4, 2019 at 10:19 am

Armed men’s cold-blooded killing sparks anger in Libya

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Surveillance cameras have caught armed men shooting to death a young man in one of the busiest streets in Libya's capital...

August 10, 2019 at 2:04 am

UN: Car bomb kills 3 UN staff outside mall in Libya

BENGHZI, Libya (AP) — A bomb-laden vehicle exploded Saturday outside a shopping mall in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing at least three U.N. staff...

July 3, 2019 at 7:16 am

In Libya, a rogues’ gallery of militias

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The airstrike that hit a detention center for migrants near the Libyan capital early Wednesday killing more than 40 people and...

Emergency workers recover bodies after an airstrike killed nearly 40 at Tajoura Detention Center, east of Tripoli on early July 3, 2019. Nearly 40 migrants were killed and more than 70 wounded in an air strike on their detention centre in a suburb of the Libyan capital Tripoli, an emergency services spokesman told AFP. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) 1352605 1352605

July 2, 2019 at 5:38 pm

Airstrike kills 44 migrants in Libyan detention center VIEW

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants near the Libyan capital of Tripoli early Wednesday, killing at least 44 people...