Libya court sentences 23 to death for Islamic State campaign
Misrata, Libya Reuters A Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death and another 14 to life in prison on Monday for their role in a deadly Islamic State militant campaign that included beheading a group of Egyptian Christians and seizing the city of Sirte in 2015. The Attorney General’s office said in a statement that […]
Lockerbie plane bombing suspect taken into US custody
London, UK/Washington DC, US Reuters A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish and US law enforcement officials said on Sunday. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi was taken […]
Libyan protest movement says it will step up its campaign
Tripoli, Libya Reuters Libyan protesters will keep demonstrating until all the ruling elites quit power, they said on the weekend, after rallies in most main cities on Friday culminated in a crowd storming the parliament building and torching parts of it. The protest movement said it would step up its campaign from Sunday, urging demonstrators […]
Militants’ bodies left to rot for years, in symbol of Libya’s disarray
Misrata, LibyaReuters Hundreds of bodies of Islamic State fighters killed in battle years ago are rotting in food freezers outside a Libyan city while authorities work out what to do with them, a grim reminder of the disarray a failed election was meant to address. Stored in a dusty corner of a compound southeast of Misrata, […]