Libyan civil war

Notorious Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar has been killed in a US airstrike in Libya, the strife-torn country's internationally recognised government said in a statement June 14.

Tunisia's foreign ministry said on Friday Libyan militiamen stormed the Tunisian consulate in Tripoli and took 10 employees hostage, the AP reported.

The ministry said in a statement it denounced the intrusion of an armed group in the offices of consulate and the detention of 10 staff of the mission. The ministry didn't identify the armed group.

Libya's warring factions began crunch talks June 8 as world leaders called for "bold political decisions" to prevent the oil-rich nation crumbling into a failed state.

The United Nations plans to host on June 8 in Morocco a new round of talks among Libya's warring factions in an effort to end a conflict that threatens to break up the oil producer. 

A pre-dawn suicide attack in northwest Libya May 31 claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed five members of the Fajr Libya militia alliance that controls the capital, a militia spokesman said.

Libya's official government has banned Bangladeshi workers from entering the country because many were trying to travel on illegally by boat to Europe, a government spokesman said on May 16.

Turkey has called for a speedy political settlement to the Libyan problem a day after a Turkish cargo ship, "Tuna-1," was shelled off the Libyan coast and attacked from the air, killing one and wounding several others. 

The Libyan coast guard arrested about 600 African migrants, including a  pregnant woman and 18 minors, who were trying to board a fishing boat in an apparent attempt to land on some EU shore.

Libya, which is in chaos after Gaddafi’s downfall, has since become a portal for illegal immigration from sub-Saharan Africa into Europe via the Mediterranean.

More than 40 people are feared drowned off Italy in the latest sinking incident in the Mediterranean Sea.

According to media reports, 41 bodies and just four survivors were found by navy searchers on Thursday when they arrived in the Italian port of Traponi.

According to the survivors, their group of 45 people had left Tripoli on a raft, ANSA news agency reports.

A bomb exploded at the gate of the Moroccan embassy in Libya's capital, Tripoli, on Monday, causing some damage but injuring nobody.

The bomb was left in a bag at the gate of the embassy which is currently inactive. The blast caused some damage to the building and cars parked nearby.

Morocco is hosting UN-sponsored talks between rival Libyan government factions.