Ministry of Interior has called on the Council of Ministers to declare a state of emergency and take extraordinary measures in order to deter crime and instil a sense of personal safety in civilians. This came after the murder of a young man in front of a shop, in Sarraj …

Italian police arrested three people on Monday accused of kidnapping, torturing and trafficking people hoping to set sail from Libya to Europe.

Deputy head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie Williams said that the United Nations is closely following the attempts of the parallel oil institution under the eastern authorities in Libya to export oil, in violation of the United Nations resolutions, underscoring that the National Oil Cooperation …

Libyan authorities have handed over arms dealer Franco Giorgi, who is accused of smuggling weapons from Europe to Libya and has been in Libya’s custody for two years, to Italy.

The merchant ship hijacked by illegal migrants off the coast of Libya has been escorted to Malta by the country’s armed forces.

Illegal migrants have hijacked a merchant ship after rescuing them off the coast of Libya, Italian media reported Wednesday.

Egyptian security experts suspect that a wall being constructed by Libya will be ineffective in stopping terrorists and arms smugglers at Libya’s porous eastern border with Egypt.

After years of civil conflict and political mismanagement, oil-rich Libya is on the verge of economic collapse. It can hardly look after its own financially struggling citizens, let alone its migrant workforce, who have become vulnerable to extortion, kidnapping, and other abuses.

The European Commission has placed Libya on a list of countries which have “strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks.”

On the walls of Souq al Khamis migrant detention centre in Khoms, a port city in northwest Libya, warnings of new arrivals are scratched on a grey wall.