Libya pro-government forces repelled a counterattack by the Islamic State group as they pressed their offensive to retake the jihadist coastal bastion of Sirte on Friday, a military statement said.
Forces aligned with Libya's unity government said they had made significant gains in residential districts of Sirte on Tuesday as they battle to oust Islamic State from its coastal stronghold.
A suicide car bomber hit a Libyan police station west of the besieged Islamic State stronghold of Sirte on Thursday, killing 10 people and wounding seven, officials said.
Forces backed by Libya's unity government said on Wednesday they had consolidated positions on the edge of Sirte, repelling counter-attacks as they seek to oust Islamic State from its North African stronghold.
Turkish police have seized a jewel-encrusted ivory dagger said to have belonged to Libya's late leader Moamer Kadhafi and which was going to be sold for millions of dollars ...
An intense fightback by the Islamic State group in Libya’s Sirte slowed an advance by pro-government forces yesterday
Forces allied with Libya's unity government said Saturday they had recaptured the port in the jihadist stronghold of Sirte from Islamic State group fighters who are surrounded inside the city.
Libya’s coast guard yesterday intercepted 117 migrants on a boat bound for Europe, including six pregnant women
The bodies of at least 117 migrants trying to reach Europe, many of them women, have washed up on a beach in the Libyan town of Zwara, the Red Crescent said Friday.
Fighters allied with Libya's UN-backed unity government have captured two coastal towns from the Islamic State group in an advance towards its bastion Sirte, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
A week of shipwrecks and death in the Mediterranean culminated with harrowing testimony from migrant survivors who said another 500 people had drowned, bringing the number of feared dead to 700.
Oil prices rose close to six-month highs on Friday as a series of supply outages in Nigeria, Canada and Libya tightened the global oversupply picture that has gripped the oil market for two years.
