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 […]
Postcards: In Gaddafi’s hometown, little hope for Libya’s future
ANGUS MCDOWELL and AHMED ELUMAMI, of Reuters, report from Sirte…
Returning to ruined city, Libyan family struggles to rebuild
Sirte, LibyaReuters Displaced for years by war, the Mokhtar family is set on reoccupying their home in Libya’s ruined city of Sirte but bitter that they are repairing the shell-cratered apartment with almost no help. The central coastal city, once home to 80,000, was smashed repeatedly as it passed from one side to another in […]
Fear and hope on Libya’s reopened highway
Sirte, LibyaReuters The green bus rumbling from Benghazi to Tripoli this week was the first to traverse the main highway between Libya’s two biggest cities in years – the delayed result of a peace push that is running into trouble. The coastal highway was reopened last week after months of negotiation as part of a […]
Bodies of 34 Ethiopian Christians killed by IS to be repatriated after being discovered in Libya
The bodies of 34 Ethiopian Christians executed by the so-called Islamic State in Libya are being repatriated to Ethiopia following their discovery in a mass grave in December. The Ethiopians were killed after IS terrorists seized the coastal city of Sirte in 2015. IS released a video in April that year purporting to show the […]
Families of beheaded Copts finally reunited with remains of loved ones in Egypt
World Watch Monitor After a three-year wait and a number of broken promises, the Egyptian Coptic families of 20 men beheaded by the so-called Islamic State in Libya in 2015 have finally received their loved ones’ remains. The leader of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, accompanied by several bishops, priests and deacons, welcomed the […]