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CNN has approached both organizations for comment and is unable to verify the two conflicting figures. More than 40,000 people have been displaced across northeastern Libya since the extreme ...
Emergency teams are working to find survivors and retrieve bodies after a massive flood hit Libya’s northeast three days ago, killing at least 11,000 people and leaving 10,000 missing.
Graffiti on a building damaged by flooding in Derna, Libya reads "Rest in peace, mom." - Sarah Sirgany/CNN He is surrounded by survivors who are also looking for their families.
Since Ancient times, the territory of modern Libya was a transit area for the slave trade from Sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean Sea. The Trans-Saharan slave trade was known from antiquity and continued until the 20th-century. Slavery in Ottoman Liby was nominally prohibited in the 19th-century, but the abolition ...
Injured. 3 Americans, 7 Libyans. Perpetrators. Ansar al-Sharia. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Alleged) The 2012 Benghazi attack was a coordinated attack against two United States government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, by members of the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia .
The history of the Jews in Libya stretches back to the 3rd century BCE, when Cyrenaica was under Greek rule. The Jewish population of Libya, a part of the Sephardi - Maghrebi Jewish community, continued to populate the area continuously until modern times.
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories.Sign up here. Following a civil ...
On 11 October, the U.S. conducted 51 airstrikes against ISIL targets in Libya, particularly in and around Sirte, between 7 and 10 October, marking it as some of the heaviest bombing since the start of the operation; bringing the total number of U.S. airstrikes in Libya to 261. [27] On 17 October, Fox News reported that US airstrikes against ...