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How War in Libya Became an Internationalized Battle

By Frederic Wehrey/Misrata, Libya

World Powers Pledged to Stop Interfering in Libya. Will They?

By Joseph Hincks

17 Killed in U.S. Airstrike on Suspected ISIS Targets in Libya, Military Says

By Billy Perrigo

Libyan Security Forces Arrest Two Russians Allegedly Attempting to Interfere in Elections

By SAMER KHALIL AL-ATRUSH, ILYA ARKHIPOV and HENRY MEYER / BLOOMBERG
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This Is the Devastating Aftermath of an Airstrike That Killed 53 Migrants at a Libyan Detention Center

An early morning airstrike on July 3 killed at least 53 people at a migrant detention center near Tripoli only two months after the U.N.’s refugee agency had warned that detainees were at risk at...

By Joseph Hincks

The Quick Read About… What's Happening in Libya

What Happened This Week: There’s been no shortage of drama in North Africa these last couple weeks following the ousters of longtime rulers in both Algeria and Sudan. But the other story you need to...

By Ian Bremmer

Libya Is on the Brink of Civil War and a U.S. Citizen Is Responsible. Here's What to Know

The offensive by the rogue general Khalifa Haftar, who has U.S. citizenship, has pushed Libya to the brink of civil war

By Joseph Hincks

The Families of Migrants Held Hostage Are Using Facebook to Raise Money for Smugglers’ Ransoms

With thousands of migrants held captive in Libya, their friends and families are increasingly turning to Facebook to raise hefty ransoms

By Sally Hayden

IS Claims Suicide Attack on Libya's Foreign Ministry

The attack was the latest blow to efforts to stabilize the war-ravaged nation

By Saleh Sarrar and Samer Khalil Al-Atrush / Bloomberg

Libya’s Recent Violence Is a Reminder the Country Is Still Badly Broken

Families are "living in fear" after a week of fighting and indiscriminate shelling in Tripoli, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator in Libya said Sept. 2. At least 61 died, 159 were wounded, and some 400 inmates...

By Ciara Nugent

Hundreds of Prisoners Escape Libya Prison Amid Fighting

The nearby area of southern Tripoli has been wracked with fighting over the past week

By Eli Meixler

Did Libya's Dictator Bankroll Sarkozy? Gaddafi's Son Hinted at Dirt in 2011

Sarkozy "plays a very dirty game. And we can do the same thing with him," Saif al-Islam warned

By Vivienne Walt / Paris

The Libyan Slave Trade Has Shocked the World. Here’s What You Should Know

The report has drawn attention to an issue that aid and migrant groups say has gone on for years

By Casey Quackenbush

Report: Armed Group in Libya Stops Migrants

Migrant arrivals to Italy have dropped by more than 50% in July compared to a year ago

By Tara John

'This Is Hell on Earth'

'This Is Hell on Earth' Eyewitness to a harrowing rescue on the Mediterranean Photographs by SANTI PALACIOS | TEXT By ANDREW KATZ Santi Palacios—AP One hundred and eighty-one people were crammed onto a rubber dinghy...

Amnesty: 2017 on Course to Be Deadliest Year Yet for Refugees Crossing the Mediterranean

Amnesty International links the soaring death toll in the Mediterranean to failing E.U. policies

By Kate Samuelson

U.S.-Made Airplanes Deployed in Libya's Civil War

Satellite images reviewed by TIME show six 'Archangels' deployed in support of rogue Libyan general backed by the Russians

By Jared Malsin / Cairo

Over 250 African Migrants Feared Dead in Mediterranean

The recovered bodies were all African men estimated to be aged between 16 and 25

By Joseph Hincks

A Monkey May Have Triggered Deadly Tribal Fighting in Libya

"Life is completely shut down in the areas where there has been fighting"

By Dominique Rowe

Gambian Soccer Player Drowns While Trying to Reach Europe

She is one of 7,000 Gambian migrants who have fled the small west African country this year

By Kevin Lui
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