Libya Assault

Tunisian authorities said two "terrorists" were killed Saturday close to the southern town of Ben Guerdane near the border with Libya where jihadists mounted a deadly assault earlier this month.

Tunisian security forces pressed a search for jihadists near the Libyan border today after a deadly raid the authorities described as an "unprecedented" assault by the ISIS.

ISIS terrorist set fire on Thursday to oil storage tanks in a fresh assault on Ras Lanuf terminal in northern Libya and the group threatened further attacks as they exploit a prolonged power vacuum in the large north African nation.

Fighting raged between the Islamic State group and Libyan forces on Tuesday as the jihadists pushed on the country's crucial coastal oil terminals.

Eight civilians were killed in an air strike near Tripoli on Monday, the US ambassador said, as Libya's internationally recognised government pressed on with an assault to recapture the capital it abandoned to a rival faction last year.

Libya has sought permission from the United Nations to import 150 tanks, two dozen fighter jets, seven attack helicopters, tens of thousands of assault rifles and grenade launchers and millions of rounds of ammunition from Ukraine, Serbia and Czech Republic.

A bitter tug-of-war between Islamists vying for power and influence was behind this week's deadly assault on a top Libyan hotel that was claimed by the Islamic State group, experts say.

Islamist-led militiamen have stepped up their assault on Libya's main airport, controlled by rival fighters, which the health ministry said on Monday had left at least 47 dead in a week.

Islamist militia launched their heaviest assault so far on Libya's main airport on Sunday two days after a truce with the rival ex-rebels that control it collapsed, a security official said.

The Libyan government has denied it had prior knowledge of the US capture of a top suspect in the deadly 2012 assault on Americans in Benghazi and demanded his return.

A rogue Libyan general, who has led repeated deadly assaults on jihadists in second city Benghazi, escaped a suicide attack on Wednesday, one of his commanders told AFP.

A renegade general who has launched an assault against Islamists in Benghazi warned Libya had become a "terrorist hub", calling for a civilian presidential high council to form an emergency cabinet and organise legislative elections.

Thick smoke poured from the besieged Nairobi mall where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages on Monday, the third day since Somalia's al Shabaab launched a raid that has killed at least 62 people.

The Senate Armed Services Committee says Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will testify on Thursday about the deadly assault on the US Consulate in Libya last September.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressional testimony concerning the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

Tunisian authorities said two "terrorists" were killed Saturday close to the southern town of Ben Guerdane near the border with Libya where jihadists mounted a deadly assault earlier this month.

Tunisian security forces pressed a search for jihadists near the Libyan border today after a deadly raid the authorities described as an "unprecedented" assault by the ISIS.

ISIS terrorist set fire on Thursday to oil storage tanks in a fresh assault on Ras Lanuf terminal in northern Libya and the group threatened further attacks as they exploit a prolonged power vacuum in the large north African nation.

Fighting raged between the Islamic State group and Libyan forces on Tuesday as the jihadists pushed on the country's crucial coastal oil terminals.

Eight civilians were killed in an air strike near Tripoli on Monday, the US ambassador said, as Libya's internationally recognised government pressed on with an assault to recapture the capital it abandoned to a rival faction last year.

Libya has sought permission from the United Nations to import 150 tanks, two dozen fighter jets, seven attack helicopters, tens of thousands of assault rifles and grenade launchers and millions of rounds of ammunition from Ukraine, Serbia and Czech Republic.

A bitter tug-of-war between Islamists vying for power and influence was behind this week's deadly assault on a top Libyan hotel that was claimed by the Islamic State group, experts say.

Islamist-led militiamen have stepped up their assault on Libya's main airport, controlled by rival fighters, which the health ministry said on Monday had left at least 47 dead in a week.

Islamist militia launched their heaviest assault so far on Libya's main airport on Sunday two days after a truce with the rival ex-rebels that control it collapsed, a security official said.

The Libyan government has denied it had prior knowledge of the US capture of a top suspect in the deadly 2012 assault on Americans in Benghazi and demanded his return.

A rogue Libyan general, who has led repeated deadly assaults on jihadists in second city Benghazi, escaped a suicide attack on Wednesday, one of his commanders told AFP.

A renegade general who has launched an assault against Islamists in Benghazi warned Libya had become a "terrorist hub", calling for a civilian presidential high council to form an emergency cabinet and organise legislative elections.

Thick smoke poured from the besieged Nairobi mall where Kenyan officials said their forces were closing in on Islamists holding hostages on Monday, the third day since Somalia's al Shabaab launched a raid that has killed at least 62 people.

The Senate Armed Services Committee says Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will testify on Thursday about the deadly assault on the US Consulate in Libya last September.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressional testimony concerning the assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.