Libya

The Greek government condemned on Monday the bombing of a Greek-owned tanker at the Libyan port of Derna that left two sailors, a Greek and a Romanian, dead.

The air force of Libya's internationally recognised government said Monday that it carried out a deadly weekend air strike on an oil tanker in the Islamist-held eastern port of Derna.
      
The air force opened fire "after the crew refused to heed orders to stop for a search operation" spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mesmari said, describing the tanker as "suspicious".
      

2 dead as Greek tanker is bombed by "unidentified warplane"

ATHENS -- Greek authorities announced on Monday that an unidentified warplane bombed a Greek tanker in Libya and that two crew members were killed and two others injured.

A Greek sailor has been killed after a tanker he was working on was bombed at the port of Derna in Libya on Sunday, according to the Merchant Marine Ministry.

More than 3,400 people have died in the Mediterranean this year trying to reach Europe, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday, urging governments to take more action to save lives.

More than 207,000 people have made the risky sea crossing since January, almost three times the previous high of 70,000 during the Libyan civil war in 2011, the UNHCR said.

The Head of the US Africa Command General David Rodriguez reported on Wednesday that Islamic State (IS) has set up training camps in eastern Libya.

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Abd al-Baset Azzouz, the leader of al-Qaeda in Libya, was reportedly detained last month in western Turkey after he entered with a fake passport.

Libya on Nov. 14 released nine Turks who had been captured by the army and handed them over to representatives from Ankara, a government statement said.

Twin car bombs struck near the shuttered Egyptian and United Arab Emirates embassy buildings in the militia-controlled Libyan capital on Nov. 13, an AFP correspondent and a UAE official said.
      
Two guards posted outside the empty Egyptian embassy compound were wounded in the first blast, Libya's LANA news agency reported.
      

A senior deputy of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Emrullah İşler, is paying his second visit to Libya in his capacity as Turkey’s special representative to the country, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Nov. 3.