Gen. Khalifa Hifter, who controls eastern Libya, has for years threatened to seize the entire country. Rival militias vowed to stop him.
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3 Teenage Migrants Are Charged in Malta With Hijacking Ship at Sea
The suspects, said to be a sociology major and two high school students, allegedly forced a small tanker that had rescued them and others off Libya to head for Europe.
2nd Trudeau Minister Resigns as Canada’s Political Crisis Swells
“There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them,” Jane Philpott said in stepping down.
U.S. and Tunisia Are Fighting Militants Together. Just Don’t Ask Them About It.
The involvement of American Marines in the North African country where the Arab Spring began is deeper than either country has acknowledged.
Times Insider: How We Made an Invisible Crisis at Sea Visible
An ambitious Opinion Video project produced across three continents — in collaboration with a pioneering forensic research group — shines a spotlight on the more than 16,000 migrants who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean since 2014.
A League of Their Own, as Few Arab Leaders Attend Summit
The red carpet was there as the Arab League held its fourth economic and social summit. But it was trod upon by only the smallest of feet.
More Than 100 Migrants Die at Sea in Wreck Off Libya, Survivors Say
The scale of the catastrophe became clear after three survivors who were rescued by the Italian Navy told aid workers 117 migrants had died in a wreck of an inflatable dinghy.
Suicide Bomber Kills 3 at Libya’s Foreign Ministry, Officials Say
A second assailant was shot and killed by guards before he could detonate explosives hidden in his vest.
Egypt Said to Arrest British Teenager for Military Helicopter Video
The authorities arrested a 19-year-old British tourist over a video he filmed on his cellphone that showed a military helicopter in the background, his family said.