Abdelkarim Mgeg’s bid for Libyan leadership raises slim hopes for a brighter future in a war-torn country. Libya has long slipped down Washington’s list of priorities. Since the fall of Muammar ...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all nations in the thick of the unrest that has pervaded the Middle East — confronted the crisis in the region at the annual U.N. gathering of ...

Since January, more than 500 people fleeing war and poverty in their country and abuses in Libya have died in the central Mediterranean, the world's most dangerous sea route ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday for criminal conspiracy over attempts to raise campaign funds from Libya, a spectacular downfall for the ...

For decades, the term Françafrique has described a shadow system that bound Paris to African strongmen through oil, arms, cash and quiet favours. Is this set to change?

Libya, which shares borders with six countries and has a long coastline along the Mediterranean, has been a main transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe.

At least 19 people drowned after the rubber migrant boat they were in sank off the coast of Libya as it was heading for Europe, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Miraculously, against all odds, Russian President Vladimir Putin is winning World War Three — just not on the bloody battlefields of Ukraine. In Ukraine, his battered military — after three-and-a-half ...