Libya Military Action

The United States has not decided whether to launch military action in Libya, where the ISIS is exploiting political instability to expand its operations, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Thursday.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote, possibly as early as Thursday, on a draft resolution authorizing European military action against migrant smugglers in the high seas off Libya's coast, diplomats said.

EU leaders gathering in Brussels today will consider launching a military operation against human traffickers in Libya, in a bold effort to halt the deadly flow of refugees trying to reach Europe by sea.

President Barack Obama on Friday urged Gulf nations to help calm the chaotic political situation in Libya, saying that outside military action would not be enough to help reduce tensions in the war-ravaged North African country.

Britain on Thursday rejected possible international military action in Libya and ruled out lifting an arms embargo on the country until it forms a unified government.

The United Nations human rights chief said on Saturday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be probed for war crimes and called for immediate action by the international community, including possible military intervention.

US President Barack Obama defended his decision to launch military action in Libya, declaring on Monday night that the United States intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the world's conscience.But he ruled out targeting leader Moammar Gaddafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a mistake as costly ...

A day after American and European forces began a broad campaign of strikes against the government of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi, the Libyan leader delivered a fresh and defiant tirade on Sunday, pledging retaliation and saying his forces would fight a long war to victory.He was speaking in a telephone call to state television, which, apparently for se...

The attack seemed to have come out of clear skies onto a field of wildflowers. Littered across the landscape, some 30 miles south of Benghazi, the detritus of the allied airstrikes on Saturday and Sunday morning offered a panorama of destruction: tanks, charred and battered, their turrets blasted clean off, one with a body still caught in its remna...

President Barack Obama authorized limited military action against Libya on Saturday, saying Moammar Gaddafi's continued assault on his own people left the U.S. and its international partners with no other choice. The Pentagon said 112 cruise missiles were launched from US and UK ships and subs, hitting 20 targets.Obama said military action was not ...

Six Danish F-16 fighter jets landed Saturday at the U.S. air base in Sicily, and American F-18s and Canadian CF-18 Hornets were in the region as the international military build-up mounted in Italy for action against Libya.Italy has offered the use of seven military bases to help enforce the U.N.-authorized no-fly zone over Libya and protect Libyan...

French warplanes swooped over the heart of Libya's uprising on Saturday as top officials from the United States, Europe and the Arab world launched a risky military operation to protect civilians from attacks by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's forces.Mirage and Rafale fighter jets are flying over Benghazi and could strike Gaddafi's tanks later Satu...

World leaders met Saturday in a summit in Paris that could be the final step before immediate international military action against Moammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya.The emergency summit of Arab and European leaders and the chief of the U.N. took place as Gaddafi's forces swarmed into the one-time rebel stronghold of Benghazi -- apparently ignoring...

US President Barack Obama on Friday ordered Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi to carry out an immediate cease-fire, withdraw his forces from rebel-held cities and stop all attacks on Libyan civilians or face military action from the United States and its allies in Europe and the Arab world. "Let me be clear, these terms are not negotiable," Mr. Obama said fr...

The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military action, including airstrikes against Libyan tanks and heavy artillery and a no-fly zone, a risky foreign intervention aimed at averting a bloody rout of rebels by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi. After days of often acrimonious debate, played out against a desperate cl...

The United States has not decided whether to launch military action in Libya, where the ISIS is exploiting political instability to expand its operations, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Thursday.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote, possibly as early as Thursday, on a draft resolution authorizing European military action against migrant smugglers in the high seas off Libya's coast, diplomats said.

EU leaders gathering in Brussels today will consider launching a military operation against human traffickers in Libya, in a bold effort to halt the deadly flow of refugees trying to reach Europe by sea.

President Barack Obama on Friday urged Gulf nations to help calm the chaotic political situation in Libya, saying that outside military action would not be enough to help reduce tensions in the war-ravaged North African country.

Britain on Thursday rejected possible international military action in Libya and ruled out lifting an arms embargo on the country until it forms a unified government.

The United Nations human rights chief said on Saturday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be probed for war crimes and called for immediate action by the international community, including possible military intervention.

US President Barack Obama defended his decision to launch military action in Libya, declaring on Monday night that the United States intervened to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the world's conscience.But he ruled out targeting leader Moammar Gaddafi, warning that trying to oust him militarily would be a mistake as costly ...

A day after American and European forces began a broad campaign of strikes against the government of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi, the Libyan leader delivered a fresh and defiant tirade on Sunday, pledging retaliation and saying his forces would fight a long war to victory.He was speaking in a telephone call to state television, which, apparently for se...

The attack seemed to have come out of clear skies onto a field of wildflowers. Littered across the landscape, some 30 miles south of Benghazi, the detritus of the allied airstrikes on Saturday and Sunday morning offered a panorama of destruction: tanks, charred and battered, their turrets blasted clean off, one with a body still caught in its remna...

President Barack Obama authorized limited military action against Libya on Saturday, saying Moammar Gaddafi's continued assault on his own people left the U.S. and its international partners with no other choice. The Pentagon said 112 cruise missiles were launched from US and UK ships and subs, hitting 20 targets.Obama said military action was not ...

Six Danish F-16 fighter jets landed Saturday at the U.S. air base in Sicily, and American F-18s and Canadian CF-18 Hornets were in the region as the international military build-up mounted in Italy for action against Libya.Italy has offered the use of seven military bases to help enforce the U.N.-authorized no-fly zone over Libya and protect Libyan...

French warplanes swooped over the heart of Libya's uprising on Saturday as top officials from the United States, Europe and the Arab world launched a risky military operation to protect civilians from attacks by Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's forces.Mirage and Rafale fighter jets are flying over Benghazi and could strike Gaddafi's tanks later Satu...

World leaders met Saturday in a summit in Paris that could be the final step before immediate international military action against Moammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya.The emergency summit of Arab and European leaders and the chief of the U.N. took place as Gaddafi's forces swarmed into the one-time rebel stronghold of Benghazi -- apparently ignoring...

US President Barack Obama on Friday ordered Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi to carry out an immediate cease-fire, withdraw his forces from rebel-held cities and stop all attacks on Libyan civilians or face military action from the United States and its allies in Europe and the Arab world. "Let me be clear, these terms are not negotiable," Mr. Obama said fr...

The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military action, including airstrikes against Libyan tanks and heavy artillery and a no-fly zone, a risky foreign intervention aimed at averting a bloody rout of rebels by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi. After days of often acrimonious debate, played out against a desperate cl...