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The European Union Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner will visit Libya next week with representatives from Greece, Malta and Italy.
The UN refugee agency said that in 2021, 32,400 refugees and migrants had made the crossing from Libya to Europe, more than ...
The European Union’s commissioner for migration says Europe will take a firmer stance with Libyan authorities following a ...
Private Ken Ward-Harvey was lucky to survive his first encounter with the enemy at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt in 1942.
It’s why the current moment is such a challenge for Trump: Israel’s strikes on Iran lure dreams of a time after an Ayatollah ...
The Founding Fathers, the people who wrote our Constitution, were very concerned about who was to have power in their new country. They had lived under a king whose word was absolute, and they didn’t ...
Libya’s current turmoil cannot be understood without examining its fragmented past: three distinct regions with separate identities, histories, and political trajectories that continue to fuel today’s ...
Many more died through executions, starvation and ethnic cleansing. When the notorious SS leader Heinrich Himmler visited Libya in in 1939, he deemed the Italian colony a successful model to emulate.
Mussolini’s fascists ran over 30 concentration camps from 1926–45, almost all of them offshore. Some 50–70,000 Libyans alone died in camps set up under Italy’s brutal colonial regime from ...
This Monday marks 80 years since Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was killed in an Italian village towards the end of the Second World War in 1945. The following day, his body was publicly desecrated ...
When WWI broke out, Mussolini broke from the socialists, who opposed Italy’s involvement in the conflict. Like Hitler, he fought in the war.
In 2012, she co-founded her own far-right party, the Brothers of Italy. A decade later, she became Italy’s first female prime minister – and the first to govern from the far right since Mussolini.