A trafficking group in Libya has sent videos and images of a young Ethiopian woman being tortured to her family, demanding that they pay $6,000 for her release, an NGO revealed this week.

The government attributed the release to procedural reasons. But critics say it is because Italy depends on Libya to stem the flow of migrants from Africa. By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo ...

CAIRO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The U.N. Libya mission expressed on Tuesday its alarm over what it said was footage circulating on social media featuring "brutal torture and ill-treatment" of detainees ...

But it is also transferring military equipment from Syria to nearby Libya, apparently to establish or strengthen Russia’s presence in that country as a new hub for its African operations. This could ...

TRIPOLI - Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said that natural gas output at subsidiary Sirte Oil Co's Alhatibh field has been raised above 100 million cubic feet per day. Connection of well S-28 ...

TRIPOLI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The head Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC), Farhat Bengdara, has resigned due to "health issues," and Masoud Sulaiman has been appointed as acting chief ...

The tumultuous collapses of Iraq, Libya and Syria offer stark parallels and contrasts, shedding light on the complex interplay of foreign intervention, internal strife and the fragile dynamics of ...

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on trial over allegations of having received millions from Libya's former dictator Moammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.

Oil prices remained somewhat depressed today following a jump on Tuesday as protesters in Libya threatened to block crude oil exports via two terminals in the Oil Crescent. After the state oil ...

Members of the Special Boat Service (SBS) are being investigated over a UK special forces operation in Libya two years ago, the BBC has been told. The Daily Mail, which first reported the ...

His arrest was welcomed by migrant rescue charities and rights groups, who said it would help end the cycle of impunity for human rights abuses in Libya. But an Italian court ruled that prosecutors ...