TEHRAN, May 2 - A suicide bomber and other militants attacked Libya's election commission in the capital on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, the Health Ministry said.
TEHRAN, April 13 - A United Nations official stated that around 1.1 million people in Libya are suffering under critical conditions for almost eight years of war and are in need of humanitarian aid.
TEHRAN, March 24 - The son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is thought to be planning to stand for election as president of Libya, seven years after his father was overthrown and killed.
TEHRAN, March 16 -The European Union wants to rapidly expand training of Libyan coastguards to stem migrant flows to Italy and reduce deaths at sea, an EU naval mission said on Thursday, signaling a renewed push to support a force struggling to patrol its own coasts.
TEHRAN, March 11 -Rescue efforts have saved several hundred asylum seekers who had risked possible death by trying to make the perilous journey from Africa to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea in unseaworthy vessels.
TEHRAN, March 10 - Libya's coastguard and an international charity ship picked up several hundred migrants on Saturday as smugglers trying to take advantage of calm seas launched a flurry of boats towards Italy.
TEHRAN, February 18 - Eleven migrants who had been subjected to slavery and auctioned in Libya arrived home on Saturday after being repatriated by the Somali government and the UN refugee agency.
TEHRAN, February 18-Thousands of people in Libya have marked the seventh anniversary of a revolution that led to the fall of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi but ushered in an era of instability in the country.
TEHRAN, February 2 - At least 90 refugees are feared drowned after a boat capsized off the coast of Libya, according to the UN International Organization of Migration (IOM)
TEHRAN, January 25 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi condemned terrorist blasts in Benghazi, Libya, which claimed lives of several people and left dozens more injured.
TEHRAN, January 8 - The Libyan Coast Guard rescued nearly 140 migrants off the Libyan coast on Monday morning after they were discovered stranded on a rubber boat.
TEHRAN, December 17 - Gaddafi Family’s Spokesman Basim al-Hashimi said Seif ul-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Muammar Gaddafi, is preparing himself for presidential election in Libya to be held amid the next year.
TEHRAN, December 12 - European governments are complicit in grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for authorities there who often work with people smugglers and torture refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, December 12 - The EU has reached an agreement with Libya aimed at stopping the flow of refugees across the central Mediterranean to the north. Under the deal, the EU has been training the Libyan coast guard to intercept boats carrying refugees.
TEHRAN, November 26 -Dozens have been arrested in Brussels after one of several European rallies against modern slavery in Libya turned violent. The very government that the West helped form after the fall of Gaddafi is now facing pressure over its inability to tackle human rights abuses.
TEHRAN, November 19 -Hundreds of activists flocked to the Libyan Embassy in Paris on Saturday, outraged with the government’s failure to tackle people smuggling after a CCN report unveiled a network of migrant slave auctions in Libya.
TEHRAN, November 19 -News of black men being put on sale at a Libyan “slave market” has drawn outrage from the African Union (AU) and triggered violent protests in Paris.
TEHRAN, November 19 -News of black men being put on sale at a Libyan “slave market” has drawn outrage from the African Union (AU) and triggered violent protests in Paris.