NEAR SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Dozens of families fled Libya's coastal city of Sirte on Monday after two days of clashes between Islamic State militants and fighters loyal to a government based in ...

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Many residents of Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's birth-place, blame Libya's new rulers and their Western allies for the death and destruction unleashed on their city by weeks of ...

Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government, supported since Aug. 1 by U.S. air strikes, have pushed militants back into a small residential area in central Sirte in a three-month-old campaign.

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar's capture of the strategic city of Sirte on Monday was a major setback for Tripoli's UN-recognised government, analysts say. The fresh advance by Haftar's self-styled ...

SIRTE, Libya (AP) – Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s dictator for 42 years until he was ousted in an uprising-turned-civil war, was killed Thursday as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte ...

Libyan interim government fighters captured Muammar Gaddafi's home town on Thursday, extinguishing the last significant holdout of resistance by troops loyal to the deposed leader and ending a ...

The Public Prosecutor’s Office has suspended 598 national identification numbers after uncovering forged family records at the central civil registry in the city of Sirte. Investigators said the ...

Six of seven Sirte councilors voted in Al-Madani at a meeting in Tripoli. The meeting was called by the Committee for Municipal Council Elections (CCMCE) and was supervised by the chair Otman Gajiji.

The first airstrike targeted an ISIS tank in Sirte. — -- New videos released by the Department of Defense show the first airstrikes the U.S. military conducted against ISIS targets in Libya. On ...

Pro-government forces battled Thursday to clear the Islamic State group from its main Libyan stronghold of Sirte, after dealing a major blow to the jihadists by seizing their headquarters. IS still ...

A pall of smoke covers the city of Tripoli, Libya, as it rises from a military warehouse that belongs to the army of Libya’s ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi in the port area of the city, Saturday. SIRTE ...