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Libya's Ansar Al-Sharia armed group announced its own dissolution on Saturday, saying it has been "weakened" by fighting in Benghazi.The group had been clashing in the eastern city with forces loyal to renegade general Khalifa…

Mobile phone networks and telecommunications have returned to Sirte city after two years of no service in the area.The loss of telecommunications and mobile phone networks came after IS took control of the city and severed all those…

Derna Shura Council has issued a statement declining any involvement in the horrific attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt's Minya on Friday.“It is not our policy to target unarmed civilians in Libya, or in Egypt,” The Statement…

The Presidential Council of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has condemned the Egyptian airstrikes on Derna, eastern Libya.The Presidential Council denounced Egypt's violation of Libya's sovereignty by striking a…

Egyptian authorities say the death toll in the ambush attack on a bus transporting Christians to a monastery south of Cairo has risen to 29, The Associated Press said.ISIS has claimed responsibility for Friday's massacre.Ten…

The number of people known to have been killed in floods and landslides in Sri Lanka rose to 113, officials said on Saturday, as the country appealed for international assistance, Reuters reported.The state-run disaster management…

The Interior Ministry and the Justice Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) said they have secured the inmate from Hadba prison after the prison compound was seized by Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade on Friday."The…

Iraqi armed forces launched an operation on Saturday to capture the last Islamic State-held enclave in Mosul, according to a military statement, Reuters reported.The fall of the city would effectively mark the end of Iraqi half of…