Libya Violence

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  Sushma Swaraj Asks Over 500 Indians In Libya To "Leave Immediately"

  As Libya's capital Tripoli continues to be hit by violence, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday said that over 500 Indians are stuck there and suggested that they leave the city immediately.

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  2 Indians Kidnapped in Libya: Foreign Ministry

  Two Indian nationals, one from Odisha and another from Andhra Pradesh, have been kidnapped in Sirte in Libya.

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  Libya's Rival Parliament Says Open to UN-Sponsored Peace Talks

  Libya's rival parliament is open to UN-sponsored talks to end the country's conflict if the venue of the next round is changed and certain conditions are met, a parliamentary spokesman said on Tuesday.

• Clashes in Libya's Benghazi Kill at Least 12: Hospital

  At least 12 Libyans were killed in Benghazi during clashes on Wednesday between soldiers and Islamists who control the country's second biggest city, a hospital source said.

• India Asks Its Nationals to Leave Libya

  Amidst spiralling violence in Libya, India's mission in Tripoli today advised all its nationals to leave the strife-torn country using all available means and not to travel to that country.

• Two Yemeni Soldiers, 'Qaeda' Gunman Killed in Clash

  Two Yemeni soldiers and a suspected Al-Qaeda gunman have been killed in a clash following an ambush in the southern province of Shabwa, security and tribal sources said on Friday.

• Police stations blasted in Libya's Benghazi: security

  Two explosions rocked police stations in the Libyan city of Benghazi early on Monday and police foiled a third attack, a security official said, adding that there were no casualties.

• Tensions in Libya ahead of first post-Gadhafi polls

  Fears of militia violence and calls for a boycott threatened Friday to mar Libya's first nationwide parliamentary election, a milestone on the oil-rich North African nation's rocky path toward democracy after the ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Saturday's vote for a 200-member transitional parliament caps a tumultuous nine-month transition tow...

• UK embassy convoy attacked in Libya

  Britain's Foreign Office has said that a British embassy convoy was attacked in eastern Libya on Monday afternoon. The Foreign Office said that all staff are accounted for following the attack in the city of Benghazi.

• New clashes rock Libyan desert town

  Fresh tribal clashes erupted today in Libya's remote southeastern desert, with one man saying five members of his clan had been killed, a toll that could not be independently verified. Clashes between the Zwai and the Toubu tribes in the town of Kufra broke out for a third consecutive day today after 17 people were killed in fierce fighting over th...

• Libyan rebels capture coastal city of Zawiya

  Libyan rebels expelled government forces from the strategic western city of Zawiya on Saturday, a major victory for the opposition in their march on Moammar Gaddafi's stronghold of Tripoli.The territory remaining under the Libyan ruler's control has been shrinking dramatically in the past three weeks, with opposition fighters advancing on the capit...

• Libya: NATO strike on rebel convoy kills five, say reports

  An apparent NATO airstrike slammed into a rebel combat convoy in Libya on Thursday, killing at least five fighters and sharply boosting anger among anti-government forces after the second bungled mission in a week blamed on the military alliance.One witness told the AP he saw airstrikes hit tanks and a rebel convoy, which included a passenger bus c...

• Freed New York Times journalists give harrowing account of captivity

  The Libyan government freed four New York Times journalists on Monday, six days after they were captured while covering the conflict between government and rebel forces in the eastern city of Ajdabiya. They were released into the custody of Turkish diplomats and crossed safely into Tunisia in the late afternoon, from where they provided a harrowing...

• Stranded in Libya, families wait in India

  Even as the government said it was putting in place plans for possible evacuation of 18,000 Indians in Libya - with communication lines cut off in most places - it has been difficult for even the Indian embassy to help the stranded.The Indians in Libya, through any means of communication they can, are trying to send a message for quick and more hel...

• Libya unrest: Air strike on protesters in Tripoli

  Deep cracks opened in Moammar Gaddafi's regime on Monday, as reports circulated of a bloody crackdown on protest in the capital Tripoli, Libyan government officials at home and abroad resigned, and two air force pilots defected.Pro-Gaddafi militia drove around Tripoli with loudspeakers and told people not to leave their homes, witnesses said, as se...