Libya-Tunisia border crossing closed following clashes | News
Closure comes as Libya says ‘outlaws’ attacked the Ras Jedir border crossing. Tunisia and Libya have closed a major border crossing at Ras Jedir due…
Survivors of rescued Mediterranean ship say dozens died during the voyage | Refugees News
At least 60 people died as the boat spent about a week lost at sea after leaving Libya, survivors tell rescuers. Survivors from a deflating…
Creator of viral boycott video talks about helping Palestinian cause | Gaza
NewsFeedThe creator of a viral video about boycotting American products has been talking about his efforts to campaign against the Gaza war and help the…
Relief as Italian court says rescued refugees cannot be sent back to Libya | Migration News
Tunis, Tunisia – News that an Italian court had blocked the country’s vessels from returning refugees and migrants to Libya was welcomed by the tens…
Under new general, Russia’s Wagner makes deeper inroads into Libya | Politics News
With the gaze of much of the world fixed on the carnage unfolding in Gaza, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin continues to expand his country’s reach…
Libya armed groups agree to leave Tripoli after deadly fighting: Minister | Armed Groups News
Libya’s Interior Minister Imad Trabelsi says the groups will leave capital after 10 people were killed over the weekend. Armed groups in Tripoli have agreed…
Mystery groundwater upsurge floods homes in Libyan coastal town | Environment News
Much of Libya is bone-dry desert but one Mediterranean coastal town is suffering the opposite problem – its houses and fields have been inundated by…
Twenty-four hours on a Mediterranean rescue ship – from Mayday to rescue | Features
Mediterranean Sea - An overcrowded wooden boat carrying 126 refugees and migrants drifts in the central Mediterranean. In the cramped space below deck, men huddle…
‘Libya is hell’ 126 refugees rescued in the Mediterranean say | News
Mediterranean Sea – In the pitch-black hours of early Thursday morning, the Humanity 1 rescue ship approached a sky-blue wooden boat in distress in the…
Sunday 24 December Independence Day in Libya
Libya had been under the rule of the Ottoman Empire since the middle of the sixteenth century. Following the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, Libya became…
At least 61 asylum seekers drown after shipwreck off Libya: IOM | Migration News
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, International Organization for Migration’s Libya office quotes survivors as saying the boat was carrying about 86 people. At least 61 refugees and…
‘Too terrified to leave the house’: Internet trolls in Libya target women | Features
When parliamentary and presidential elections were announced in Libya for December 2021, prominent political activist Hanan al-Faidy, 46, immediately registered her candidacy for parliament in…
Libyan militias are ‘making a killing’ off kidnapping refugees for ransom | Refugees News
Bani Walid, Libya – Salem Doma never imagined that, after escaping government oppression at home in Eritrea, his greatest hardship still lay ahead, in the…
‘A real hell’: The climate refugees of Libya’s floods and regional strife | Floods
Often, in the middle of the night, Khadijah can hear screaming. It could be the woman in the classroom next door, who has refused to…
Putin rakes in extra €1B for his war chest via Bulgaria sanctions loophole – POLITICO
BRUSSELS — The Kremlin raked in an extra €1 billion for its war effort this year after Russia’s largest private oil firm exploited loopholes in…
Putin’s Move to Secure Libya Bases Is New Regional Worry for United States
Russia is moving to expand its military presence in eastern Libya, a plan that could lead to a naval base, giving it a significant foothold…
Statehood in the Middle East: In Search of New Models
Among Arab political scientists and politicians, much as in the circles of Middle East experts across the world, the political processes in a region that…
The Libyan divers facing daily horror to retrieve Derna’s dead | Floods
Of all the things he’s found in the blue Mediterranean waters of Derna, the many bodies of children with vacant eye sockets and protruding bones…
Putin suggests Wagner mercenary chief’s plane brought down by grenade blast | Vladimir Putin News
Russian leader says grenade fragments found in bodies of those killed in jet crash where Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin died. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested…
Rescue group decries Libya coast guard ramming into migrant boat | Migration News
Video posted by Sea-Watch International shows Libyan coast guard crashing into a dinghy with dozens of migrants on board. Rescue group Sea-Watch International has condemned…