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Militants from the Islamic State group who were killed in a US air strike in Libya posed a threat to US and Western interests, the Pentagon says.An IS camp was attacked in Sabratha, around 70km (43 miles) west of Tripoli.The 38…

U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two deadly attacks last year in neighboring Tunisia.…

Thousands of Libyans took to the squares across the country on Wednesday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of February revolution that overthrew dictator Gaddafi in 2011 and spread waves of freedom and optimism in Libya.Ceremonies,…

One of the most famous and influential journalists in the Arab world, the Egyptian Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, has died in Cairo at the age of 92. His name is most closely associated with nationalist Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser…

Turkey's president says there is evidence to prove the Kurdish YPG militia based in Syria were behind Wednesday's deadly bombing in Ankara. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said they had been supported by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers…

The Libyan Post Company has issued three (500 Dirhams) new stamps to mark the fifth anniversary of the Libyan February revolution.On Facebook, the company said that the first stamp exemplifies the Libyan map as one entity with the…

The terror group is gaining ground in Libya. But the Obama administration has said no to a Pentagon plan to go after ISIS there.Despite the growing threat from the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya, the Obama administration has…

The U.N. envoy to Libya is urging its parliament to endorse a unity government that can help combat a mushrooming Islamic State affiliate, he told The Associated Press on Wednesday, the fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled…

Many municipalities from the western region announced Tuesday their rejection of the results that the Constitution Drafting Assembly's work committee reached and urged for reconsidering the constitution traits to be molded on Libya's…

Unidentified aircraft attacked a hospital compound in the city of Derna, eastern Libya, on February 7, 2016, in apparent violation of the laws of war. Two bombs struck the Al-Wahda Hospital compound in the Bab Tobruk area, killing at…