President Thabo Mbeki Wednesday left Pretoria for Libya to attend the OAU's extra-ordinary summit of Heads of State and Government.

Sirte, Libya — The fifth extraordinary summit of the Organisation of African Unity opened late Thursday evening in Sirte on a double call for the ratification of the Constitutive Act of the ...

US-backed government militia in Libya are pushing forward in their battle to expel ISIS from the coastal Libyan city of Sirte despite ongoing attacks from the terror ...

Rival brigades fighting for Sirte are unlikely to compromise or remain unified even if ISIS are ousted.

The fall of Sirte to pro-government forces is a significant setback for the Islamic State group in Libya, but will not spell the end of the jihadists in the strife-torn country, experts say.

Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government stand next to an Islamic State (IS) group flag in Sirte's centre as they advance to recapture the city from the jihadists on June 10, 2016 ...

She cried as she said she would have to return to Sirte. With no shelters in Libya for people fleeing ISIS, and no savings, her family had nowhere else to go.

When Western officials cajoled Libya's warring factions to support a unity government this year, they said it was a chance for the rival armed brigades to unite against the common enemy, Islamic ...

On Libya’s front lines, Sirte is focus for regional rivalries Libyan factions and their foreign backers have been mobilising as diplomats try to avert a military escalation in Sirte.

Sirte, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast across from Europe, has become the first city Islamic State governs outside of Syria and Iraq.

“Commanders on the ground in Sirte need to make sure that their forces protect civilians and allow them to flee the combat zone,” said Fred Abrahams, special advisor at Human Rights Watch.

In Libya, revolutionary fighters staged a full assault on Sirte early Friday, trying to subdue the town that now serves as a bastion for fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. The coastal city ...