Libyan authorities said Sunday they had arrested 203 African migrants in the capital who were preparing to make a perilous sea crossing to Europe.
Italy's foreign minister flew into Tripoli for talks with the head of the unity government Fayez Seraj - the first senior Western official to meet the new Libyan administration since it moved to the capital.
The Italian coastguard Monday rescued 1,850 migrants in eight operations in the Strait of Sicily, as a wave of boats departing from the Libyan coast intensifies.
Barack Obama says the biggest mistake of his presidency was the lack of planning for the aftermath of the fall of late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi ...
Nine migrants trying to reach Europe have drowned off Libya and hundreds more been rescued, the Red Crescent said Sunday amid fears of an increase in crossing attempts as the route from Turkey closes.
More than 2,400 migrants and three corpses have been recovered from people smugglers' boats off Libya since Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said Wednesday.
Two Italians kidnapped last July in Libya were freed on Friday in a raid on Islamic State group hideouts in a city near the capital, officials in Libya and Rome said.
Aircraft attacked a convoy carrying suspected Islamic State militants near the northwestern Libyan town of Bani Walid early on Sunday, an official said.
Two Serbian embassy staff members abducted in Libya in November are believed to have been killed on Friday in US air strikes on a suspected Islamic State training camp ...
A US air strike on a jihadist training camp in Libya killed dozens of people Friday, probably including a senior Islamic State group operative behind attacks in Tunisia, officials said.
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday not to let the Islamic State build a base in Libya, saying the United State would take action where there was a "clear target."
An air strike hit a hospital in Derna in eastern Libya on Sunday, killing four people including a woman and her child and two anti-government fighters, a doctor said.
