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 ...

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 ...

Libya's coastal city of Sirte, home town of ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi and a strategic gateway to oil export ports, is now at the centre of tensions between rival forces. On Friday, Libya's warring ...

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 ...

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.

Forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) said Saturday they have launched a new attack on diehards of the Islamic State group in the coastal city of Sirte. Backed by weeks of US air ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Libyan forces ride a military vehicle as they prepare for next advance against Islamic State holdouts in Sirte, Libya ...