The Libyan security forces have freed ten kidnapped Syrians, including children, in the city of Riqdalin, about 120 km west of the capital Tripoli, the interior ministry has revealed.

Aisha spent months in Tripoli’s Abu Salim detention centre, before eventually making her way to Tunisia.

Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) launched air strikes against “foreign armed groups” near its border with Chad.

Libyan authorities have arrested an Islamic State leader suspected of having planned three deadly attacks in Libya’s capital in 2018, the UN-backed government announced on Thursday.

The leader of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT), Mahamat Mahdi Ali, accused the Government of National Unity (GNU) of allowing the Chadian army to bomb sites of their forces inside Libyan territory.

Around 200 Chadian army vehicles were moving towards Libyan territory under French air cover, a member of the Front for Change and Concord rebel group in Chad (FACT), Mohamed Cherif Jakou, revealed on Sunday.

Seventeen Indian nationals, who were held captive by an armed group in Libya, have been rescued and brought back to India, according to multiple reports by Indian press on Monday.

The Front for Change and Concord rebel group in Chad (FACT) has announced an end to a ceasefire it declared in 2021 with the Chadian army.

For desperate Syrians, a WhatsApp message saying “I want to go to Europe” can be all they need to start a treacherous journey to Libya and then across the Mediterranean.

Alarming reports from international organizations are having little effect on the deterioration of living conditions for over 700,000 migrants in Libya. While many hope to reach the European Union, crossing the Mediterranean is deadly: nearly 2,000 have died or disappeared at sea since the beginning of the year.