In a statement, the LNA said announced, "as a continuation of the naval forces’ performance of their national duty to protect the Libyan coasts, the naval special forces boats arrested a bulldozer with about 650 im
Major Ramzi Najm said that after receiving a report from the Naval Special Forces Operations Room, the Special Forces patrols left to the northwest of the Benghazi region. The report included that it was carrying
In August last year, Italian military vessels aided a boat crammed with 539
Libya has in recent years emerged as the dominant transit point for
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants...
-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime autocrat Muammar Qadaffy
...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
in 2011.
Human traffickers in recent years have benefited from the chaos in Libya, smuggling in
The
Those who have been returned are taken to detention centres rife with abuses, including forced labor, beatings, rape, and torture. The abuse often accompanies efforts to extort money from families before they are allowed to leave Libya on traffickers’ boats.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported 1,522 dead or missing
Overall, the IOM says 24,871