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War crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of child soldiers, have been committed in Libya since 2016, a United Nations investigation revealed on Monday. The Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, established by the U.N. Human Rights Council, said Europe-bound migrants face abuse in detention centers and at the hands of traffickers, while detainees…

ABOARD GEO BARENTS -- The number of migrants rounded up as part of Libya's unprecedented crackdown exceeds 5,000 people, including hundreds of children and women -- dozens of them pregnant, according to a United Nations tally.

TRIPOLI — Authorities in Libya on Monday announced the discovery of 10 bodies in a new mass grave in Tarhuna, the latest morbid find after years of rule by the notorious Kaniyat militia.“Two sites were discovered. Four unidentified bodies were extracted from the first and six from the second,” the department charged with searching for remains said in a statement.It also

Report documents the recruitment of children in hostilities, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings of prominent women.

It also published pictures showing a number of holes in what it said was a local landfill site, adding that it expected to unearth more bodies

Paul Schemm (YAB '92) was recently named foreign deputy regional editor at The Washington Post. Schemm studied abroad at AUC for a year in 1991, an experience that further piqued his interest in the Middle East and left him wanting more. He eventually returned to Cairo years later, where he grew his career as a reporter and editor. Now based in London, Paul recalls his time at AUC and in Cairo with fondness.  Where were you born? Where did you grow up?

It has one name written all over it: warlord Khalifa Haftar.

Geneva, Oct 5: Investigators commissioned by the United Nations' top human rights body said they had evidence of possible crimes against humanity and war

Investigators commissioned by the United Nations’ top human rights body said Monday they had evidence of possible crimes against humanity and war crimes in Libya. Many of the alleged crimes, they say, were committed against civilians and migrants detained in the country while trying to get to Europe. Their findings come amid an unprecedented crackdown…

Hundreds of Europe-bound migrants intercepted off Libya