Boris Johnson has told Libyan politicians to learn from Theresa May's mistakes and avoid holding elections until they are ready.

Saif al-Islam, the son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released after more than five years in detention, his captors said.

An informal Opec meeting next month is unlikely to deliver any agreement to limit production because several members including Iran are still pumping below capacity.

The American military and industrial complex needs a new enemy to justify its massive budget and Vladimir Putin is the right person at the right time, argues Peter Van Buren.

An Eritrean man suspected of running a human trafficking network that sent thousands of migrants to Europe, leaving many to die on the way, has been extradited from Sudan to Italy, officials said.

One of the world's most wanted people-smugglers has been arrested.

The US and other world powers have said they are ready to supply Libya’s internationally recognised government with weapons to counter Islamic State and other terrorists.

The value of the US and UK’s special relationship has been reaffirmed in the wake of Barack Obama’s criticism of David Cameron for his actions over Libya that allowed it to become a “shit show”.

The US has bombed an Islamic State camp in Libya, in an effort to kill one of the masterminds behind last summer’s massacre of tourists on a Tunisian beach.

It is the Western powers’ strategy of training, funding, and arming ‘moderate’ jihadists to fight against the ‘radicals’ that is now backfiring with deadly consequences, writes Brahma Chellaney

A helicopter has been shot down in Libya, killing at least 14 of its 23 passengers.

A Libyan court sentenced Muammar Gaddafi’s most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, and eight others to death over war crimes including killings of protesters during the 2011 revolution that ended his father’s rule.

With many Africans denouncing the International Criminal Court as ‘white man’s justice’, the trial of Chad’s former dictator in Senegal on charges of crimes against humanity offers the continent a chance to show it can hold its leaders to account.

Former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi met Irish government officials in late 2010 about a potential €1.4bn Bank of Ireland investment — but pulled out because he did not feel “comfortable” with our control of the financial crisis.

Islamic State fighters tightened their grip on the historic city of Palmyra in Syria, days after capturing a provincial capital in neighbouring Iraq, hinting at the momentum of the group, which a monitor says holds half of Syrian territory.

As many as 950 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast in what may be one of the worst disasters of the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said.

Italy has issued its strongest warning yet about the danger of the Islamic State group establishing a stronghold in Libya from where it could attack Europe and destabilise neighbouring states.

Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing four foreigners and five guards, and triggering an hours-long stand-off that ended when two assailants set off a grenade that killed them, officials said.

Gunmen have stormed a luxury Libyan hotel popular with foreigners and have taken hostages after killing at least three guards, a security official has said.

Fighter jets dispatched by Libya’s internationally recognised government bombed a Greek-owned tanker ship at an eastern city controlled by Islamist extremists, killing two crew members and wounding two, Libyan and Greek officials said.

Fighter jets dispatched by Libya’s internationally recognised government bombed a Greek-owned tanker ship at an eastern city controlled by Islamist extremists, killing two crew members and wounding two, Libyan and Greek officials said.

Garret FitzGerald made an impassioned appeal to Margaret Thatcher to save their talks on the future of the North, warning that failure could trigger a civil war that would “drag down” the entire island, according to newly-released official papers.

Garret FitzGerald made an impassioned appeal to Margaret Thatcher to save their talks on the future of Northern Ireland, warning that failure could trigger a civil war that would “drag down” the entire island, according to newly-released official papers.

A British man who had been held hostage by militants in Libya has been released, the British Foreign Office said.

The US consistently ignores the lessons of its past blunders in conflicts on the world stage — and so repeats them, writes Brahma Chellaney.

At least 70 people have drowned after two boats carrying dozens of migrants to Europe capsized near the Libyan capital, coast guard officials said.

They were created by imperial powers, but war and terrorism is posing risks to the shape and future of many nations, writes Shlomo Avineri

A day of militia fighting for control of the international airport in Libya’s capital Tripoli has killed 22 people, the interim government said yesterday.

A day of militia fighting for control of the international airport in the capital Tripoli has killed 22 people, a spokesman for Libya’s interim government said.

Escalating violence in Libya has prompted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to shut down its embassy in the country.

Remember the hullabaloo within the international community (ie, Britain and the USA), when Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was threatening to march on Benghazi?

Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the "last chance saloon" over the Ukraine crisis, but appears to be doing little to get out of it.

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has accused France’s justice system of trying to “humiliate” and “destroy” him, after he was charged in a corruption probe that could spell trouble for his future political ambitions.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was detained and reportedly questioned by financial investigators in a corruption probe that could cloud his chances of a political comeback.

Gunmen have abducted five Egyptian diplomats and embassy employees in the Libyan capital, a spokesman for Libya’s foreign ministry said.

Prominent international war crimes experts say they have received a huge cache of photographs documenting the killing of 11,000 detainees by Syrian authorities.

The truth behind the Lockerbie bombing may never be known, says a former British ambassador to Libya.

Clashes have erupted in Libya's capital as soldiers and government-affiliated militias attempt to regain control of a base occupied by armed gunmen after a deadly militia attack on protesters the day before.