The government attributed the release to procedural reasons. But critics say it is because Italy depends on Libya to stem the flow of migrants from Africa. By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo ...

Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert in the ...

Nordio’s handling of the case was a glaring display of the Meloni government’s nationalist priorities, from Italy seeking to maintain cooperative relations with Libya to curb migrant flows ...

But Tarik Lamloum, a Libyan activist working with the Belaady Organization for Human Rights which focuses on migrants in Libya, said Italy’s release of al-Masri was expected. He said his release ...

She is under no obligation to resign. Being placed under investigation in Italy does not imply guilt, nor mean that formal charges will necessarily follow. “I will not be blackmailed ...

Italy has close ties to Libya's internationally recognized government in Tripoli and relies on it to patrol its coasts and prevent migrants from leaving. Any trial of al-Masri in The Hague could ...

ROME, - Italy's interior minister said on Thursday ... torture and rape of detainees in Libya. He was freed on Tuesday due to what an Italian interior ministry source said was a legal technicality ...

TRIPOLI, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that 135 refugees of different nationalities were evacuated from Libya to Italy on Tuesday through a ...

last week, of a Libyan warlord, Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama al-Masri, wanted by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and who had been arrested in Turin, northern Italy.

With a flourish worthy of Scipio Africanus, Pietro Badoglio, Marshal of Italy and Governor of the colonies of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (now known as Italian Libya), reported to II Duce last week ...

Italy detained Njeem in the city of Turin earlier ... Recently, the ICC’s chief prosecutor issued arrest warrants over alleged crimes in Libya beyond the civil war, including in detention ...