Tripoli

Libyan coastguard officials say around 100 people may have drowned from a migrant boat off the country's western coast. The coastguard officials say they have...

The mayor of Libya’s capital was abducted by unknown gunmen from his house overnight, Tripoli’s city council said on Thursday.

Fierce clashes broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday, killing at least 20 people, shutting the airport, and damaging planes during what the government said was a failed attempt to spring militants from a nearby prison.

Libya’s coastguard rescued nearly 500 migrants on Tuesday at sea west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said, underlining the challenge of trying to slow an exodus from Africa and the Middle East.

Libya's former prime minister Ali Zeidan has been kidnapped by an armed group in war-torn Tripoli and not been heard from in nine days, family members and friends said on Tuesday.

Libyan militiamen have abducted one of the country's former prime ministers in the capital, Tripoli, witnesses said on Monday.

Two women and two girls were killed late on Tuesday when a shell landed on a beach near Mitiga airport in the Libyan capital,...