WASHINGTON — American warplanes struck multiple targets in Libya overnight, hitting an Islamic State training camp and a senior extremist leader, U.S. defense officials said Friday.
The Pentagon is seeking $200 million in the 2017 budget for counterterrorism operations in Libya and other portions of North and West Africa, as the Islamic State threat in that region continues to grow.
While Iraq and Syria have been the focus of the coalition fighting the Islamic State, Libya has become a new hotspot for the militant group. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on how American officials are responding, and Judy…
In our news wrap Thursday, at least 47 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Libya by a truck bomb targeting a police training center with hundreds of recruits. Also, dozens of Saudi airstrikes hit targets in Yemen's…
Governments from Europe, Africa and the Middle East are calling for all sides in Libya's four-year civil war to agree to a ceasefire. Delegations from 17 countries discussed a UN plan to create a national unity government within 40 days.
Scottish prosecutors say they have identified two suspects in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, and are asking the Libyan government to allow them to be interviewed. That comes just two days after the final episode of Frontline's “My Brother’s Bomber,” which…
A former staff member for the Republican-led House of Representatives committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is claiming the panel improperly targeted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of a congressional panel investigating the deadly Benghazi attacks said Friday that a member of Hillary Rodham Clinton's inner circle could provide key insight into how the State Department maintained its presence in Libya prior to…
It was another deadly day amid the growing refugee crisis in Europe. Hundreds are feared dead just off the coast of Libya, and the number of victims found in the back of a truck in Austria has risen to more…
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