Libyan Civil War

Two Bangladeshi citizens, among a group of foreign workers taken hostage by the Islamic State militant group in an attack on a Libyan oilfield, have been released after more than two weeks, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said today.

Three car bombs ripped through the eastern Libyan city of Qubbah today, killing 40 people and wounding 70, security officials and medics said.

A statement from Benghazi-based extremist Islamic militant group Ansar al-Shariah says its leader Mohammed al-Zahawi has been killed.

Libya's warring factions have agreed on an "agenda" to form a unity government after two days of UN-brokered talks in Geneva, the UN said today.

More than three-quarters of Libya's newly elected parliament met for the first time on Saturday in a city chosen by a prominent anti-Islamist politician, likely signaling a swing against Islamists and extremist militias amid violence unseen since the 2011 civil war that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

At least two people were killed on Sunday when a stray rocket hit their house as rival Libyan militias exchanged heavy fire around Tripoli's international airport in one of the worst worst spasms of violence since the ouster of longtime dictator Muammar Gadhafi in 2011.

Libya's government said on Tuesday it was considering calling for international forces to help restore security, as fighting between rival militias around Tripoli airport pushed the country closer to civil war.

Explosions and gunfire have been heard around the international airport in Libya's capital as airlines have cancelled some international flights.

Gunmen shot dead a newspaper editor who was an outspoken critic of Islamists in Libya's volatile east on Monday, in a targeted killing that came hours after he warned the Islamist-led parliament of a civil war if it didn't bow to widespread demands to disband and allow early elections.

The Libyan government on Monday proposed an initiative aimed at saving the country from plunging into civil war, calling on the disputed parliament to go into recess, a statement said.

A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing at least 10 people, officials said, in one of the biggest attacks since the end of the civil war that ousted former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya's interim rulers declared the country liberated on Sunday after an 8-month civil war, launching the oil-rich nation on what is meant to be a two-year transition to democracy. But they laid out plans with an Islamist tone that could rattle their Western backers. The circumstances of Gaddafi's death remain unclear. In separate accounts late Su...

An autopsy confirmed that Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi died from a gunshot to the head, the country's chief pathologist said today, just hours before Libya's new leaders were to declare liberation and a formal end to an eight-month civil war to topple the longtime ruler's regime.

Anti-government protesters who took control of Libya's second-largest city of Benghazi celebrated in the streets on Monday after a turbulent and bloody night in which the heir-apparent son of the nation's strongman, Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi, warned in a televised speech that Libyans would fall into civil war if they threw off his father's 40-year-lo...

Two Bangladeshi citizens, among a group of foreign workers taken hostage by the Islamic State militant group in an attack on a Libyan oilfield, have been released after more than two weeks, the Bangladeshi foreign ministry said today.

Three car bombs ripped through the eastern Libyan city of Qubbah today, killing 40 people and wounding 70, security officials and medics said.

A statement from Benghazi-based extremist Islamic militant group Ansar al-Shariah says its leader Mohammed al-Zahawi has been killed.

Libya's warring factions have agreed on an "agenda" to form a unity government after two days of UN-brokered talks in Geneva, the UN said today.

More than three-quarters of Libya's newly elected parliament met for the first time on Saturday in a city chosen by a prominent anti-Islamist politician, likely signaling a swing against Islamists and extremist militias amid violence unseen since the 2011 civil war that toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

At least two people were killed on Sunday when a stray rocket hit their house as rival Libyan militias exchanged heavy fire around Tripoli's international airport in one of the worst worst spasms of violence since the ouster of longtime dictator Muammar Gadhafi in 2011.

Libya's government said on Tuesday it was considering calling for international forces to help restore security, as fighting between rival militias around Tripoli airport pushed the country closer to civil war.

Explosions and gunfire have been heard around the international airport in Libya's capital as airlines have cancelled some international flights.

Gunmen shot dead a newspaper editor who was an outspoken critic of Islamists in Libya's volatile east on Monday, in a targeted killing that came hours after he warned the Islamist-led parliament of a civil war if it didn't bow to widespread demands to disband and allow early elections.

The Libyan government on Monday proposed an initiative aimed at saving the country from plunging into civil war, calling on the disputed parliament to go into recess, a statement said.

A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing at least 10 people, officials said, in one of the biggest attacks since the end of the civil war that ousted former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya's interim rulers declared the country liberated on Sunday after an 8-month civil war, launching the oil-rich nation on what is meant to be a two-year transition to democracy. But they laid out plans with an Islamist tone that could rattle their Western backers. The circumstances of Gaddafi's death remain unclear. In separate accounts late Su...

An autopsy confirmed that Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi died from a gunshot to the head, the country's chief pathologist said today, just hours before Libya's new leaders were to declare liberation and a formal end to an eight-month civil war to topple the longtime ruler's regime.

Anti-government protesters who took control of Libya's second-largest city of Benghazi celebrated in the streets on Monday after a turbulent and bloody night in which the heir-apparent son of the nation's strongman, Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi, warned in a televised speech that Libyans would fall into civil war if they threw off his father's 40-year-lo...