Muammar Gaddafi

Libya's U.N.-backed Presidential Council called on the country's institutions March 12 to begin a transfer of authority to a unity government, and appealed to the international community to stop dealing with any rival powers. 

Turkey has expressed willingness for Egypt to take part in a proposed working group formed to coordinate international efforts in Libya, which has been mired in conflict following an uprising that toppled veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi five years ago, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has said. 

U.S. President Barack Obama directed his national security advisers on Jan. 28 to counter efforts by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to expand into Libya and other countries, the White House said.

ISIL militants have taken advantage of chaos in Libya to establish themselves in the city of Sirte, and they have carried out several attacks on oil installations this month. 

Saif al-Islam, a son of Libya's slain leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, has been sentenced to death over war crimes a Libyan court believes he committed during the 2011 uprising.

Eight other senior members of Gaddafi's regime have also been sentenced including former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi.

Saif al-Islam's death sentence will be performed by a firing squad.

The headline could have read "Making Money Off Others' Misery", yet Italian daily La Repubblica has a migrant smuggler, arrested on Sicily recently, laughing about migrant-laden boats ferrying their human cargo across the Mediterranean to the "promise land", the European Union in this case.

Around 400 migrants are feared dead after their boat capsized off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Italian coast guard rescued 144 people from the boat on Monday and initiated an air and sea operation with the hope of finding other survivors.

Ankara has called on the transitional government in Libya to "review its irresponsible attitude and avoid hostile and baseless statements" against Turkey.

The United States Tuesday condemned a strike by Libyan aircraft that bombed an oil tanker off the Islamist-held port of Derna, killing two crew members.

The crewmen -- a Greek and a Romanian -- were killed on the Liberian-registered vessel, the Araevo.

Two other crewmen, both Filipinos, were wounded in the attack.

Turkish Airlines, the last remaining foreign carrier offering flights to Libya, announced on Jan. 6 that it was suspending all flights to the conflict-wracked country amid the worsening security situation.