List of Libya articles
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Rescuers help people in the sea after a boat carring some 250 migrants crashed into rocks as they tried to enter the port of Pantelleria, an island off the southern coast of Italy, on April 13, 2011. A fishing boat which had sailed across the Medittarenean from Libya ran aground today on rocks on the tiny Italian island of Pantelleria, killing two women, the ANSA news agency reported. Italy is struggling to cope with a mass influx of immigrants from north Africa, many of whom risk their lives by sailing across the often stormy Medittaranean in makeshift vessels. AFP PHOTO/ Francesco Malavolta ==ITALY OUT== (Photo credit should read FRANCESCO MALAVOLTA/AFP/Getty Images) Libya to Europe: Please Don’t Come to Our Rescue
Libya's U.N. envoy expresses skepticism over European plans to fight migrant smugglers in Libyan territory, saying it will cause more trouble than it's worth.
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470549596 cropped The View From Libya, Ground Zero in the Migrant Crisis
An epidemic of human smuggling is adding to the woes of a country that already has more problems than it can handle.
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485893951 cropped These 56 People Have a Chance to Save Libya
Amid a brutal civil war, there’s still one institution that can turn things around.
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453910920 cropped Why Picking Sides in Libya Won’t Work
The West needs to get serious about negotiations to end the civil war.
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A fighter of Libya's Fajr Libya group (Libyan Dawn) fires his gun during clashes in the hill village of Kikla, southwest of Tripoli on October 21, 2014. The internationally recognised Libyan government called for a civil disobedience campaign in Tripoli until its forces retake the capital from militias who seized it. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD TURKIA (Photo credit should read MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images) The New Pirates of Libya
Why the rise of the radical Islamists in North Africa threatens America directly -- and how to stop it.
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Opposition Battles Gaddafi's Forces In Eastern Libya Is Libya the Next Stronghold of the Islamic State?
The chaotic civil war is giving the caliphate a foothold in North Africa, and its enemies can’t figure out whether to kill the jihadists or use them for their own purposes.
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452873024_libya2 Somalia on the Mediterranean
Four years after a half-hearted intervention in Libya, the country has become a breeding ground for terrorism. Washington can’t afford to look the other way anymore.
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463678396 cropped The Smart Way to Intervene in Libya
Yes, Libya needs help from the outside world -- but not if it makes things worse.