At least 65 people are killed when one of Libya's worst truck bombs in years exploded at a police training centre in the town of Zliten.

Late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Hannibal has been freed after being briefly kidnapped by an armed group in Lebanon, security sources say.

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton is set to testify in front of a Congressional committee about the attack on a US consulate in Libya in 2012 that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans.

Foreign ministry has strongly advised Bangladeshi nationals against travelling to war-torn Libya until further instructions.

Twenty-five Bangladeshis, who survived after two boats capsized off Libyan coast on August 24, return home.

At least 12 Bangladeshi migrants suffer bullet wounds as robbers attacked their camp in Libya.

A total of 31 Bangladeshis, who survived the boat capsize off Libyan coast on August 24, will be repatriated home by next week.

Bangladeshi authorities confirm the nationalities of the deceased and survivors who were on boats that perished in the sea off Libyan coast.

Three people have been arrested in Libya on suspicion of involvement in launching a boat packed with migrants.

The UN says "much more is required" to prevent the deaths of migrants fleeing to Europe after hundreds were reported dead in recent days.

The Italian navy organizes the rescue of around 4,400 migrants in waters off the Libyan coast, prompted by requests for help received from nearly two dozen boats, in one of the biggest multi-national operations so far.

Italy's coastguard says it is coordinating the rescue of up to 3,000 migrants from waters off Libya after receiving SOS calls from 18 different crowded vessels.

At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean.

Four Indian teachers are kidnapped in Libya, India's foreign ministry says.

Bangladesh embassy suspends operations in war-torn Libya, advises Bangladeshis including migrant workers to avoid traveling there.

The UN's cultural agency says destruction of antiquities and heritage sites in conflict zones by Islamic State and other extremist groups could amount to war crimes.

US says an air strike in Iraq has killed an Islamic State (IS) militant linked to an attack on a US diplomatic compound in Libya 3 years ago.

A top Islamist militant who ordered a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant two years ago has been killed in a US air strike in Libya, officials say.

European warships and coast guard vessels rescue more than 2,000 migrants off the coast of Libya.

Islamic State militants in Libya claims to have seized the airport in the coastal city of Sirte