The ancient amphitheater of the city of Sabratha — considered a “jewel of the Roman Empire” — is scarred by bullets and littered with shell casings from roving smugglers and illegal immigrants, the French outlet AFP reported. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) listed the historic site — located in Libya — as “in danger” in 2016. The amphitheater... 

Italy has said it will give ships and equipment to the Libyan Coast Guard to help it intercept and bring migrants back home. Italy’s government has announced Monday it will provide 10 motor launches and two ships, as well as an unspecified amount of equipment and other material, to the Libyan Coast Guard service, in order to increase its capacity to intercept and bring back illegal migrants... 

Before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton got involved in Libya it was comparatively stable and no strategic threat to the United States or its allies. But that was before Obama and Hillary toppled the regime and Guddafi’s body was carted through the streets on the hood of a pickup. Today the country is in shambles, with black Africans literally being sold in slave markets. Libya today is a failed... 

The United Nations’ new envoy to Libya, a former Lebanese culture minister named Ghassam Salame, has shocked leftists by coming out in support of efforts by the Italian and Libyan government to close down the African invasion route across the Mediterranean. Salame, appointed in June to head UN operations in Libya, described the cooperation between Tripoli and Rome as a “very constructive”... 

Far-right activists from the Identitarian movement have charted a ship to fight illegal migration off the Libyan coast and to expose what they describe as alleged collaboration between European NGOs operating in the area and human traffickers. A 40-meter-long ship called the C-Star, which was charted by the group, set sail from the African port of Djibouti on July 6 and is expected to take the far-right... 

The younger brother of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was planning an attack on a United Nations special envoy. Reports claim Hashem Abedi, 20, had plotted to assassinate Martin Kobler, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, during a visit to Tripoli earlier this year. The terrorist cell were thought to be in the later stages of the plan, but it was foiled before it could be executed. The... 

Nearly 10,000 migrants were rescued off the coasts of Italy and Libya this week, as the leaders of G7 gathered for a summit coincidentally held in Sicily. And at least 54 people have drowned in the Mediterranean since Tuesday. Large-scale rescue efforts off the Italian coast on Friday saved 2,200 migrants who risked their lives traveling in unworthy sea vessels to reach Italy. Italian coastguard and... 

African and Arab slave traders are running active slave markets in Libya, dealing in blacks trying to cross the Sahara Desert to invade Europe, it has emerged. The slaves are used as forced labor until their families pay ransoms, with communications done by cell phone networks, and money transfer companies such as Western Union. According to a report by the United Nations’ International Organization... 

Four days of clashes between rival tribal militias in the Libyan city of Sabha have left at least 16 people dead and 50 injured. The violence was reportedly triggered by a monkey that snatched the headscarf off of a tribal girl. The monkey, which belonged to a shopkeeper from the Gaddadfa tribe, pulled the headwear off a schoolgirl from the Awlad Suleiman tribe who was passing by with a group of other... 

US authorities took no adequate measures in connection with the attack on the CIA base, a US diplomatic mission, in the Libyan city of Benghazi, a report from a special committee of the US Congress House of Representatives said. Chairman of the committee that prepared the report, Trey Gowdy, said that the US government had taken no measures even eight hours after the Islamic radicals attacked US premises... 

New light is being shed on the role presidential candidate Hillary Clinton played, as Secretary of State, in the 2011 military intervention in Libya, with over 50 officials from the US, Europe, and Libya speaking out in interviews with The New York Times. The report features many of those directly involved in the mission that overthrew the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, portraying Clinton as... 

ISIS militants parade through Sirte, Libya. The Islamic State has increased its presence in the Mediterranean city of Sirte in Libya from 200 fighters at the start of the year to a force of 5,000 men, including administrators and financiers; the base is the first to be directly established by ISIS/ISIL outside Syria and Iraq, and brings the terrorists closer to Europe. The militant group has apparently... 

Millions of refugees have crossed into Europe in the last five years from Middle East and Africa. Starting from 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs in order to replace Muammar Gaddafi. Since then the chaos has not stopped from escalating, wrote US author Eric Zuesse. The American-sponsored bombing campaign has been creating terror in many countries in the last few years, more recently,... 

An Italian Navy officer gives instructions to migrants waiting to disembark from Italian Navy ship “Driade” in Messina’s port, Sicily, Italy, April 18, 2015. The UN refugee agency has confirmed that 800 people lost their lives in a ship accident in the Mediterranean Sea this weekend. “We can say that 800 are dead,” said Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner... 

A new video released by the Islamic State’s affiliates in Libya purports to show the killing of two groups of Ethiopian Christians. The 29-minute video shows two groups of captives held by the Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL), described by onscreen text as “followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church.” It says one group is being held by an ISIS affiliate...