Khalifa Hifter

Migrants gather in an area near the Libyan-Tunisia border, as Libyan security forces and Libyan Red Cross workers distribute food aid to them on Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, file)

Reports of Trump deportation plans highlight abuse of migrants in Libya

Experts, human rights workers and lawyers criticized reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya.
 
The Bluebonnet Detention Center on Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Anson, Texas (AP Photo/Eli Hartman)

Some migrants were told they’d be sent to Libya, attorneys say as they try to block the deportations

 
View of the ICC, the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Libya warlord arrested in Italy on warrant from the International Criminal Court, but then expelled

 
Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hang from traffic lights as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, to watch U.S. President Barack Obama, not seen, live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

What will Syria’s future look like? The answer could lie in other Arab countries’ recent pasts

 
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands as they pose for photos during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3, 2024. (Sergey Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Turkey and Russia engage in delicate maneuvers over Syria after Assad’s downfall

 

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This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

UN announces initiative to overcome political deadlock in Libya

 
This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

Gunmen clash in a Libyan city and fires erupt at a nearby oil refinery

 
FILE - Libya's Khalifa Hifter, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, is seen at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. A U.S. judge tossed out a series of civil lawsuits, Friday, April 12, 2024, against Hifter, who used to live in Virginia and was accused of killing innocent civilians in that country's civil war. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

US judge tosses out lawsuits against Libyan commander accused of war crimes

 
This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

Libya says production has resumed at its largest oilfield after more than 2-week hiatus

 
FILE - A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Sept. 12., 2023. For years, experts warned that floods pose significant danger to dams protecting nearly 90,000 people in northeast of Libya, repeatedly calling for immediate maintenance to the two structures outside the city of Derna. But successive governments in the divided and chaos-stricken North African nation did not heed their advice. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty, File)

Libya was mired in chaos and corruption. For years, warnings the Derna dams may burst went unheeded

 
FILE - Two men hug as people look for survivors in the flooded city of Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. For many Libyans, the disastrous flooding that killed more than 11,000 people have fostered a sense of unity. The collective grief has morphed into a rallying cry of national unity in a country blighted by 12 years of conflict and division. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

For a divided Libya, disastrous floods have become a rallying cry for unity

 
View of the destruction after the floods in Derna, Libya, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings, and even the sea to look for bodies in Derna, where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed thousands of people. (AP Photo/Ricardo Garcia Vilanova)

Libya investigates dams’ collapse after a devastating flood last weekend killed more than 11,000

 
A general view of the city of Derna is seen on Tuesday, Sept. 12., 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods in multiple coastal towns, the destruction appeared greatest in Derna city. (AP Photo/Jamal Alkomaty)

Thousands are feared dead and thousands more are missing in flood-ravaged eastern Libya

 

UN experts urge forces of powerful Libyan commander to stop evicting residents, demolishing homes

 
This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

Libya’s central bank announces reunification after nearly a decade of division due to civil war

 

Libyan governing body’s vote to replace its head adds uncertainty to the country’s split politics