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Libyans hope for law and order as country is torn apart
Today’s attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, is a symbol of the anarchy that has come to characterise the country.
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As Italian prosecutors arrest the captain and a crew member of the boat on which as many as 900 people may have drowned, Italian police are also cracking down on people smugglers.
The US is increasingly concerned about the growing presence and influence of the Syria-based Islamic State movement in Libya, according to US officials and a state department report.
Families desert Libya’s coastal city of Sirte after two days of clashes between Islamic State militants and fighters loyal to a government based in Tripoli.
Egypt carries out an airstrike against an Islamic State-affiliated group in Libya in retaliation for the apparent beheading of 21 Egyptians.
More than 300 people are feared dead after attempting to reach Italy from Libya on four separate rubber dinghies, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) say.
The killing of at least 30 security personnel in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula could be more than just jihadist violence – but an indication of new and dangerous tactics from the Islamic State group.
Today’s attack on the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, is a symbol of the anarchy that has come to characterise the country.
Lebanon’s military storm the country’s biggest prison, which they say has become an “operations room” for the Islamic State group, as fears increase of the terror group’s presence at the border.
The chair of the inquiry into British intelligence agencies’ complicity in the CIA’s interrogation programme demands the US hand over material that was redacted from the report.
Why did the UK government ever think that the vetting of participants in a scheme to train Libyan soldiers in the UK could be left to the Libyans, when that country was in a state of collapse?
The debacle of Libyan soldiers accused of rape while on a training course near Cambridge symbolises the chaos of both post-revolutionary Libya and British policy.
The government suffers a significant defeat in attempts to avoid a trial over allegations of complicity in the imprisonment, rendition and torture of a Libyan couple in 2004.
18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.
Libya’s rival factions are called Dawn and Dignity. But fighting means it has little chance of achieving the new dawn or the life of dignity the 2011 revolution promised.
Britain is closing its embassy in Libya and evacuating staff, following in the footsteps of other western countries, after fighting between rival militias spread across the capital, Tripoli.