Tunisia's Foreign Ministry says 60 of its citizens have been released from detention in Libya, leaving more than 100 still under arrest. On Saturday, Tunisia's consul in Tripoli, Brahim Rezgui, said that 172 Tunisians had been arrested by authorities. Differing reasons have been given for...
An armed group allied to the Libya Dawn forces controlling Tripoli has detained 170 Tunisians in the Libyan capital since Saturday after Tunis arrested one of its commanders, Tunisian officials said on Monday. Brahim Rezgui, Tunisian consul in Tripoli, told a Tunis radio...
One of the young men was a high school literature student who helped his father tend the family olive trees in their isolated farming community near the Algerian border. The other lived in the capital Tunis, had a taste for fashion and worked as a travel agent. Jabeur Khachnaoui...
A Turkish dry cargo ship was shelled from the Libyan coast as it approached the port of Tobruk and then attacked from the air as it tried to leave the area on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The third officer on the Cook Islands-chartered Tuna-1 vessel died and other...