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A former Libyan prison boss was described as a "notorious torturer" known as the "Angel of Death" who raped, murdered, and abused detainees, the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard on Tuesday. The ICC was kicking off three days of hearings against Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, 47, suspected of...

Libya’s coast guard fired upon a vessel belonging to a humanitarian group as it searched for a migrant boat in distress in the Mediterranean Sea, the nonprofit said on Monday. The attack, which took place the day before, appeared to be one of the most violent involving a European rescue ship and the...

A Libyan general wanted for alleged war crimes and violence against inmates at a prison near Tripoli has been arrested in the northern Italian city of Turin – and then released after an apparent mistake by prosecutors. Osama Najim, Libyan general also known as Almasri, was detained on an...

Libya’s eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, as stated by three of its lawmakers. The measure is aimed at reunifying the oil-producing country after over a decade of factional conflict. The UN’s mission to Libya has repeatedly called for an...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday unsealed arrest warrants against six members of a Libyan militia group charged with war crimes. In 2023, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said arrest warrants had been issued by court judges for war crimes in Libya since 2011, but these warrants were under...

Libyans from rival regions and all walks of life are fed up with the country’s divisions and want political players to end their years-long impasse and agree to hold national elections, a key step to peace in the oil-rich north African country, the U.N. deputy representative said Wednesday...

At least 107 migrants including women and children have been freed from captivity in a town in southeast Libya, a security force spokesman said on May 6. Walid Alorafi, spokesman for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Benghazi, said according to some migrants, they were held in captivity...

At least 65 migrants' bodies have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on social media platform X on March 22. IOM said in a statement the circumstances of the migrants' death and nationalities was unknown "but it is believed...

Armed groups in Tripoli have agreed to leave the Libyan capital and to be replaced with regular forces, the country’s interior minister said, after a spate of deadly clashes. “After a month of consultations, we came to an agreement with the security groups that they will leave the capital soon,”...

The United Nations mission in Libya has urged authorities to investigate the shooting deaths of 10 people in a Tripoli neighborhood, with city security chiefs saying the victims included two members of a powerful armed faction. The UN said in a statement released on social media that the authorities...