The UN said Friday that cease-fire talks in Libya began on June 3, with the UN support mission and Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar's forces operating in the east of Libya. At a twice-weekly press conference, UN Information Services Director Alessandra Vellucci answered a question from Anadolu...

Libya's UN-recognised government announced Friday another victory in its counter-offensive against eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar, overrunning his last western stronghold Tarhuna, launchpad of an abortive 14-month assault on the capital. The recapture of the strategic town southeast...

At least 194 asylum seekers en route to Europe were returned by the Libyan coast guard to Tripoli, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday.  The asylum seekers included women and children, according to IOM, who noted that “staff were at the disembarkation...

Hundreds of mourners Thursday attended the funeral of Nabil Hasan al-Quaety, a Yemeni videographer who contributed to AFP, two days after he was killed in the southern city of Aden. Raising his portrait and describing him as a "martyr", angry crowds shouted slogans calling for freedom of...