President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika affirmed Wednesday that Algeria is determined to “cope with the effects of the drop in oil prices through a sound and strict development economic Continue Reading
The deserted royal palace here, hidden behind locked gates and an overgrown garden, stands as a monument to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi ’s virulent rejection of Libya ’s monarchy. Colonel Qaddafi Continue Reading
In Libya, troops under Gen. Khalifa Hifter took control of Benghazi’s al-Laithi district as militants rapidly withdrew from the area, The New Arab reported Feb. 23. The militants’ withdrawal allowed Continue Reading
Photo Senegalese commandos during a recent United States-led training exercise in Senegal. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times THIES, Senegal — The Islamic State’s branch in Libya is Continue Reading
The Italian government last month quietly began allowing armed American drones to fly out of an air base in Italy for military operations against Islamic State in Libya and across Continue Reading
talian energy company Eni said it received consent from the Egyptian government to lay the groundwork for developing a giant offshore gas basin. Eni said received word from the Egyptian Continue Reading
The Islamic State’s branch in Libya is deepening its reach across a wide area of Africa, attracting new recruits from countries like Senegal that had been largely immune to the Continue Reading
American warplanes bombed a seaside town in Libya early Friday aiming to kill a militant commander linked to attacks on Western tourists. But the mission also highlighted the widening gap Continue Reading
U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two Continue Reading
American warplanes struck an Islamic State camp in Libya early Friday, targeting a senior Tunisian operative linked to two major terrorist attacks in Tunisia last year, according to a Western Continue Reading
