Libya news

A small European peace-keeping force to the strife-torn country will just invite attack by violent Islamists

Former Prime Minister says Brussels-style attacks will continue unless strategy changes and local allies fighting Isil should be offered "active, on-the-ground, military support".

Government says no decisions have been made about where to base the training mission, but top MPs say Tripoli is under consideration

America has finally acknowledged that Christians and other religious minorities are being butchered in the Middle East. Why does the UK government not do the same?

David Cameron urges action to destroy boats close to the Libyan shore, ahead of gruelling night of talks over Turkey's 'blackmail' deal

Sources say an international deployment 'appeared to be getting closer' but Government deny any decision has been made

The PM must realise that not making any political effort after removing Gaddafi has caused this chaos

Assault comes a week after disclosure that British troops are training Tunisian border guards

Experts and officials believe that America's assessment of Isil's strength in Libya is overblown.

Special forces working alongside their US counterparts in Misrata to stop the jihadists’ progress.

French special forces have carried out ‘secret’ operations in Libya and intelligence officers have guided air strikes targeting IS commanders

Noureddine Chouchane, one of the organisers of last year's massacre of British tourists, is believed to have been killed

If you topple a dictator you have chaos today; if you support him you have turmoil tomorrow and great human suffering in the meantime

Central bank still paying anti-Gaddafi militias five years on – despite most of them drifting into thuggery

Those accused of spying on the group are strung up from billboard on downtown roundabout

A guilty conscience is no reason to put British troops in danger

Exclusive: Terror group paying impoverished Africans from Sudan, Nigeria and Chad to join its new chapter in Gaddafi's home city of Sirte

Mystery gunman credited with shooting three of the terror group's leaders in their new "Caliphate" in Colonel Gaddafi's home city of Sirte

A senior Nato naval officer says the rise of the militant group in Libya is casting a shadow over shipping in the Med