Kevin Dawes describes how a fellow prisoner in Syria kept a promise that called attention to Dawes' detention. Now, five years after his release, Dawes is suing the Syrian regime.
Rights groups accuse nations of using COVID-19 as an excuse to shut out refugees. Here's one story of migrants attempting a deadly voyage to Europe, only to be pushed back to where they fled.
"Our death rate is rising alarmingly," a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesperson says. Aid agencies continue rescue efforts off the shore of Libya, hoping to save anyone else who survived.
Hashem Abedi has denied involvement in the 2017 bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert that killed 22 people in Manchester, England. He was charged with murdering all of them.
The Tripoli office of the International Committee of the Red Cross says, "Densely populated residential areas are gradually turning into battlefields." The city has been under attack since April 4.
On Monday, Khalifa Haftar's force hit Tripoli's lone functioning civilian airport. The U.N.'s Humanitarian Affairs office says, "Clashes with heavy weapons are affecting residential areas."
More than 100 migrants were picked up from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean. When they realized the ship was returning to Libya, officials say, they commandeered it and demanded passage to Europe.
Migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea refused to return to Libya, saying they'd been tortured. After more than a week, Libyan coast guards boarded the ship and put the migrants in detention.
The ship operated by a German charity languished at sea for nearly a week seeking permission to enter a port. The latest incident comes as the EU is set to discuss the ongoing migrant crisis.
Ahmed Abu Khatallah was charged in the 2012 assault that killed four Americans. He was acquitted of murder, but his terrorism-related convictions could have meant life in prison.
Nicolas Sarkozy, who served as president from 2008 to 2012, has been under a wide-ranging corruption investigation for years. Earlier this week he was taken into custody for questioning.
French officials have been investigating claims that former President Nicolas Sarkozy took 50 million euros from the Libyan regime to fund his successful 2007 presidential bid.
The Pentagon said the two ISIS training camps housed fighters who had escaped their former stronghold in Sirte, on Libya's central coast. It added that militants there were planning attacks in Europe.
Two hijackers armed with a hand grenade and pistols took over a flight within Libya. Malta's prime minister says all 118 people on board the plane are safe and that the hijackers are in custody.
No incoming president has started his term with the U.S. military engaged in four separate conflicts. Trump has offered few clues about his plans aside from a sweeping pledge to destroy ISIS.
Officials say two boats sank in the Mediterranean, and at least 31 survivors arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa. This year has been the deadliest ever for migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
The U.S. went to war after Sept. 11 and has now been fighting for 15 years, the longest unbroken period in its history. Despite disappointing results, there's broad consensus it should continue.
Two years ago, "to many observers, ISIL looked invincible," Obama said at the Pentagon on Thursday. But now: "ISIL turns out not to be invincible, they're in fact inevitably going to be defeated."
The Pentagon announced it had attacked targets around the ISIS-occupied city of Sirte at the request of the U.N.-backed Libyan Government of National Accord.
Human Rights Watch interviewed 45 Sirte residents for its report, which paints a vivid picture of how ISIS controls every aspect of life. ISIS has benefited from the chaos in Libya.
Logically, it's not the right time to open up shop in Tripoli. But entrepreneurs aren't only investing in their businesses, they're buying into a new way of life.
Europe's Operation Sophia isn't disrupting Libyan smuggling "in any meaningful way," a House of Lords report says. In fact, the report found, the operation may be putting migrants in danger.
Kevin Dawes was seized in Syria in 2012. The government never acknowledged holding him, but has now freed him after what U.S. officials described as lengthy negotiations.
