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ROME—Four Italian workers were kidnapped in Libya on Sunday evening, Italy’s Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni confirmed Monday. Mr. Gentiloni said he didn’t know who was responsible for the ...
As ISIS makes inroads into Libya, officials in Rome are panicking about an Islamic State just across the sea—but have no idea how to combat the crisis.
BENGHAZI, Libya – Libyan officials say a team of five Italian investigators has arrived in a town near the Algerian border where two Italians and a Canadian were abducted at gunpoint earlier ...
Italian Interests in Libya. Geographically, Italy is one of the closest European country to Libya, with the island of Lampedusa, a destination of choice for migrants fleeing North African unrest ...
An Italian construction worker who endured nearly eight months in captivity in Libya with three co-workers — suffering hunger, thirst and beatings — told reporters Monday that he escaped by ...
A group of 18 sailors who were seized by Libyan patrol boats in September while fishing in the Mediterranean have been freed by authorities in eastern Libya, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio ...
On Saturday, gunmen opened fire on the Italian consul's armored car in Benghzi, Libya. In the wake of this attack, and the Sept. 11 attack on the US mission which killed the ambassador and three ...
Italian minister meets Libya's new Tripoli government Italy’s top diplomat has become the most senior western official to travel to Libya after an interim government took power in the North ...
The ouster of UniCredit CEO Alessandro Profumo after his courtship of Libyan capital shows the growing sensitivity in Italy to its former colony's involvement in the Italian economy.
If you were a Maltese Tripolino, between British Malta and Italian Libya, speaking Maltese and living in Libya, would you have integrated, clung to Britishness, or embraced italianità, Xuereb asks.