The Italian prime minister announced the investigation herself over social media, calling it “blackmail.”
A Libyan officer said the stepped-up flights from Russia and Syria delivered military gear.
Russia wants to keep NATO solely focused on the developments in Ukraine, making us oblivious to his imperialist plans elsewhere, Matas Maldeikis writes.
Libya has been in political turmoil since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
A standoff over control of the bank had destabilized the country’s economy and raised the prospect of fresh fighting between Libya’s eastern and western factions.
If we do not prevent Libya from becoming a mafia state, the trend will not stop at Libya’s borders but become a norm in the region,...
Abdel-Rahman Milad, a former leader of the Libyan coastguard, was accused by the UN of running a trafficking organisation.
The incident comes just days after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya and 22 out of 32 people on board went missing, presumed...
The country has settled into a tense east-west divide, but turmoil around the central bank, which handles Libya’s oil riches, has worsened a fraying, fragile political...