Unwelcome Refugees

It's been three months since Abdi* went to Bani Walid, a town known to Libya's refugees and migrants as the "ghost city" due to the prevalence of smugglers known for torturing their human charges. The teenager was released from a Tripoli detention centre du…

Refugees and migrants trapped in a detention centre on the front line of conflict in Tripoli for weeks say they were shot at indiscriminately on Tuesday by fighters aligned with eastern forces advancing on Libya's capital.  At least 10 people were seriously …

If you were to buzz at bumblebee height over flyover country this month, you would find spring unfurling petal by petal, the crocuses, daffodils, tulips, forsythia and even the indomitable dandelion blooming noticeably earlier than several decades ago. But if…

BRUSSELS—The European Union is a vast entity, stretching across 28 nations, with regulations, directives, and debates that affect each one. Every year, the EU holds several major summits, dozens of high-level ministerial gatherings, and hundreds of committee …

US President Donald Trump has spoken by phone to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar amid a military assault by the renegade general to seize the capital Tripoli from the country's internationally recognised government. A White House statement on Friday said Tru…

A suburb of Tripoli was hit by mortar bombs narrowly missing a clinic, as death toll soared to over 200 in the two weeks of offensive by renegade general Khalifa Haftar's troops on the Libya capital. Shelling could also be heard on Thursday in parts of Tripo…