At least 60 refugees and migrants are feared missing and drowned at sea after two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said, after attempting the ...

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 ...

According to an NBC News report published last Friday, citing information from five individuals familiar with the initiative, the Trump administration is developing a plan to permanently relocate ...

Tripolitania and Cyrenaica came under complete Italian sovereignty by virtue of the decree of November 5, 1911. In the course of the Libyan war and Italy's subsequent gradual penetration of the ...

The Italian invasion of Egypt. Credit: MacMoreno / Wikimedia Commons By contrast, the Italians had the combined forces of two armies: the 5th, led by General Italo Gariboldi (stationed in Tripolitania ...

With a flourish worthy of Scipio Africanus, Pietro Badoglio, Marshal of Italy and Governor of the colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (now known as Italian Libya), reported to II Duce last week ...

The Maghreb Since 1800: A Short History Knut S Vikor, Hurst, £19.99 AS AUTHOR Knut S Vikor says in his introduction, the term “Middle East” was a British colonial invention, covering the region ...

Tripolitania, Libya. 26 January 1943. Aircraft of the RAF transport squadrons were right up in front again when the Allied Air Forces took over Castel Benito airfield. A short time after the landing ...

New details of how they ended up in this quintessentially English setting have been revealed in a report obtained by The National. Their home for the last 200 years or so has been the sculpted gardens ...

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the most important Turkish political leader since the Ottoman Empire’s expansion was checked at Vienna in 1683. A career officer educated from the age of 12 in military ...

Tripoli, Libya — One of Libya's main refineries in the west has been shut down after clashes between local armed groups erupted early Sunday and caused fires on infrastructure, state oil company ...

A legacy that still casts a complicated shadow across the North African republic, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s 1969 coup established an over four-decade authoritarian rule over Libya. Carried out by the ...