Pentagon Chief Pledges Support For Egypt’s Sisi
US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and top brass in Cairo on Thursday, pledging ...
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US Defence Secretary Arrives In Cairo For Sisi Meeting
US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis arrived in Cairo Thursday on the latest leg of a regional tour, as ties ...
Tech Firms Urge Court To Toss Trump Travel Ban
Scores of technology firms including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft joined a legal filing urging a judge to toss out ...
Migrant Rescuers, Island Mayor Win UNESCO Peace Prize
UNESCO awarded its prestigious peace prize on Wednesday to migrant rescue association SOS Mediterranee and the mayor of Lampedusa, the ...
Hunger Kills Three Ghanaians In Libya
Three Ghanaians have reportedly died in the past week in Libya with over 500 people more stranded in that country. ...
Hunger Kills Three Ghanaians In Libya; 500 Stranded
Three Ghanaians have reportedly died in the past week in Libya with over 500 people more stranded in that country. ...
Thousands Saved Off Libyan Coast Over Easter
Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year ...
Libya Govt Urges ‘intervention’ Over Southern Clashes
Libya's unity government has called for "urgent intervention" by the international community to end military escalation in its south, warning ...
3,000 Migrants Rescued Off Libya Coast Saturday
The Italian coastguard and other boats rescued some 3,000 migrants from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast on Saturday, as ...
Frenzied Rescues In Med Save Over 2,000 Migrants
Rescue vessels in the Mediterranean worked flat out Friday to rescue over 2,000 people from flimsy dinghies as exhausted saviours ...
At Least 97 Migrants Missing As Boat Sinks Off Libya
At least 97 migrants were missing after their boat sank on Thursday off the Libyan coast, a navy spokesman said. ...
African Migrants Sold In Libya ‘slave Markets’
Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in “slave markets” in Libya, the International Organization for ...
African Migrants Seeking Europe Sold As ‘slaves’ For $200
African migrants trying to reach Europe are being sold into slavery in Libya, including for sex, for as little as ...
Iraq’s Sadr Warns Assad Could Share Kadhafi’s Fate
Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Tuesday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that he risked suffering the same fate as slain ...
Libya PM Sarraj Accuses EU of Reneging On Migrant Pledges
The European Union has reneged on pledges to help Libya fight migrant smuggling to Europe, UN-backed Libyan Prime Minister Fayez ...
US Strike Wiped Out Fifth of Assad Air Force, Mattis Says
The US strike on a Syrian air base destroyed a fifth of the Damascus regime's remaining warplanes, Pentagon chief Jim ...
UN Chief Pushes Change In Trump-Era Turmoil
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres marks his first 100 days in office on Monday, facing a long list of worsening conflicts ...
Syria, Russia To Top Agenda As G7 Ministers Meet
G7 foreign ministers were on Monday to send a "clear and coordinated message" to Russia over its stance on Syria ...
US Steps Up Pressure On Syria Ahead of Russia Talks
The United States stepped up pressure Sunday on Russia to rein in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning that any further ...
Libya and Uganda Engage In A Legal Row Over Telecom Company
The Libyan government has sounded a warning to the Ugandan government over its move to repossess shares of the Libyan ...