Two people were found dead as more than 200 migrants adrift in two dinghies off the Libyan coast were rescued by the Spanish navy on Sunday, the Spanish Defence...

An Irish naval ship rescued 712 people including pregnant women and infants off the coast of the Libyan capital of Tripoli as part of an international migrant rescue effort,...

Eid al-Fitr is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims around the world that marks the end of Ramadan, Islamic holy month of fasting.

Developments in the Gulf have cast a shadow over the political landscape in the entire Arab world. As is the case with all significant political events, positions and judgments...

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of a former Lebanese culture minister as the new UN envoy to Libya, diplomats said, ending an unusually contentious...

Eight orphaned children of Daesh fighters have been transferred from Libya to their relatives in Sudan, the Sudanese Media Centre (SMC) confirmed on Sunday. A representative of the Sudanese...

The intensifying split within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), as epitomised by the Saudi-led effort to isolate Qatar, has effectively ended (at least for the foreseeable future) Saudi Arabia’s...

Sudan has called on Libyan leader, Khalifa Haftar, to stop supporting and providing a safe haven for Darfur rebel groups, the Libyan Observer reported. Speaking publically in Khartoum for...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is currently organising efforts to rescue around 200 mainly Somali and Ethiopian migrants it believes have been kidnapped and held and tortured in...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was set to name a former Lebanese culture minister as new UN envoy to Libya, ending an unusually contentious four-month search that followed US...

Libya’s coast guard intercepted 906 migrants off the western city of Sabratha on Friday, a spokesman said. The migrants were on board several wooden and rubber boats, coast guard...

Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui delivered a speech at a Friday conference in Ankara devoted to the role of Tunisian diplomacy in facilitating democratic transition, challenges currently facing the...

The International Criminal Court has called for the arrest of  just a week after he was released by the Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Brigade in Libya, agencies have reported. Muammar...

The European Union must do more to help protect migrants stranded in Libya and to convince its member states to share the burden of caring for refugees who reach...

A Spanish aid organisation rescued 420 migrants who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea

French President Emmanuel Macron began the first leg of his two day visit to Morocco yesterday where battling terrorism, the Libyan conflict and Qatar’s dispute with its Gulf neighbours...