Armed vessels linked to the Libyan coast guard opened fire on a humanitarian rescue ship Monday after it rescued about 90 migrants in the Mediterranean.

The boats were carrying migrants from Bangladesh, Egypt, and Sudan. Libya has become a transit route for migrants to flee to Europe across the Mediterranean. At least four people were killed when two ...

The migrants, who were from Egypt’s al-Sharkia and al-Gharbia regions, were attempting to reach Italy, according to Libyan sources who interviewed the sole survivor.

In the early morning hours of Wednesday, a group of detained migrants were bused from a facility in Texas to a base where a military aircraft awaited them – at least one of them had been told he was ...

More than 250 migrants may have died when a boat sank a kilometre off the Libyan coast, a coast guard official said on Sunday. "We believe there are still more than 250 bodies trapped underwater," ...

Libyan authorities announced Monday that they found nearly 50 bodies in two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, again driving home the persistent dangers faced by migrants seeking ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 24 - A Senegalese former migrant who was tortured in Libyan detention camps and was comforted by Pope Francis said Thursday he will attend the late Argentine pontiff's funeral in St ...

The migrants were travelling in a rubber dinghy similar to this, when it capsized off the coast of Libya A rubber boat carrying 55 passengers, including two babies, has overturned off the coast of ...

Geneva — The United Nations said Wednesday that 42 migrants were missing and presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off the Libyan coast, with only seven survivors rescued after six days adrift.