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Vladimir Putin will lead Russia for another six years, after securing an expected victory in the presidential election, BBC reported. A Russian state exit poll gave him 73.9% of the vote, easily defeating…

Families have fled the war zone in Sabha, southern Libya, over the continued fighting between two rival parties in the city. The Sabha municipal council said Saturday that over 400 families left their houses in…

Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized control on Sunday morning of the city of Afrin, the target of a two-month military operation against Kurdish militias in the enclave in Syria. The takeover dealt a blow to Kurdish aspirations for…

Libya's eastern-based forces arrested 16 al-Qaida-linked foreign militants in the southern city of Kufra as they were trying to infiltrate into the country, said a statement late Saturday. "The…

Turkish-led forces began a street-by-street fight to capture the most important Kurdish-held town in northern Syria early Sunday, CNN-Turk television said, a crucial juncture in Turkey’s two-month-old campaign to expel U.S.-backed…

The Libyan coastguards issued a statement accusing the Spanish rescue ship, Proactivia Open Arms, of creating a mess in the rescue operation that took place off Libyan coast on Friday.The statement said that the Libyan coastguard was…

Any theft from frozen Libyan assets in the Middle East would totally undermine UK arguments that it cannot access such assets in Britain to compensate terror victims, it is claimed.IRA victims groups and supportive parliamentarians…

The eight Greek crewmen of a Greek-owned tanker who were arrested on Wednesday night off Libya on suspicion of fuel smuggling were reportedly transferred to a naval base in Tripoli on Friday.The tanker, which was…

A Spanish rescue ship carrying 216 migrants was heading Friday to a Sicilian port after having a high-seas run-in with Libya's armed coast guard during the rescue.Proactiva Open Arms said a sick baby and her mother were…