Some 50 migrants were found dead in the hold of a boat off the coast of Libya on Wednesday during a rescue operation which saved 430 other people, the Italian coast guard said. Thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have put to sea this year in the hope of reaching...

Islamist militant gunmen opened fire on a Tunisian customs team near the Algerian border, killing one customs agent and wounding three more, a security source said on Monday. The attack on a customs vehicle late on Sunday was in Bouchbka, in central Kasserine province, where...

A Tunisian policeman was shot dead Wednesday by two assailants on a motorbike in the coastal resort of Sousse where a jihadi gunman killed 38 tourists in June, a senior security official said. "Unknown assailants fired on three policemen on a road. One of them was hit and died in hospital,"...

Libyan state prosecutors are investigating unidentified guards purportedly shown in a video beating a son of Muammar Gaddafi held in a Tripoli prison, a statement said on Monday. The video was posted a week after a Tripoli court sentenced Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and eight former regime...