Troops loyal to Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said they shot down a plane belonging to forces loyal to the rival unity government, which acknowledged losing contact with one of its aircraft. Haftar's spokesman Ahmad al-Mesmari said Thursday night an L39 Albatros was shot down...

Migrants who survived the deadly airstrike on a Libyan detention center said Thursday they had been conscripted by a local militia to work in an adjacent weapons workshop. The decision to store weapons at the facility in Tajoura, to the east of Tripoli, may have made it a target for the...

The military hardware is moving into place. So are the protesters. And, ever the showman, U.S. President Donald Trump is promising the “show of a lifetime” on the National Mall for the Fourth of July. Trump is marshaling tanks, bombers and other machinery of war for this year’s...

An air strike late on Tuesday hit a detention centre for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, a health official said. It is the highest publicly reported toll of an air strike or shelling since eastern forces loyal...