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Chad is shuttering Qatar's embassy and giving its diplomats 10 days to leave the country, accusing the Gulf Arab state of trying to destabilize the central African nation via its northern neighbor Libya, it said on Wednesday.It is…

The spokesman of Libya’s self-styled national army in the east says Islamic State militants beheaded 11 people in an attack on a checkpoint, the Associated Press said.Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Mosmari said in a Facebook post that two of…

Europe will be increasingly at risk from terrorists posing as migrants unless western capitals help Libya to stem the numbers crossing the Mediterranean, the country’s prime minister has told The Times.Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the…

A row over access for Qataris to Islam's annual haj pilgrimage is further poisoning relations between their country and Saudi Arabia and aggravating a wider diplomatic rift with other Arab powers.Qatar has accused Saudi Arabia,…

According to sources from the media, the former Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, has been released from his detention in Tripoli.Zeidan was arrested from his hotel in Dahra in Tripoli on August 14 by security forces allied to the…

Libya’s biggest oil field, where production has been disrupted for the past three days, shut again after briefly reopening Tuesday.Authorities discovered a closed valve on the pipeline linking the Sharara oil field to the Zawiya port,…

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Iraq on Tuesday just days after the start of an offensive to oust Islamic State from the city of Tal Afar, with talks focused on backing Iraqi efforts to stabilize areas recaptured from the…