Over the past two months, the ISIS international franchise has made gains from West Africa to the Indian subcontinent, with militants in several countries proclaiming for the "caliphate."
Amnesty International charged that the Egyptian military failed to take adequate precautionary measures to avoid civilian casualties in its attack on the Libyan city of Derna.
An Egyptian court put ex-president Mohammed Morsi on trial over accusations of spying and endangering national security by leaking information to Qatar.
Presumed ISIS adherents in Libya have released photos on social media purporting to show some 20 abducted Coptic Christians, saying they await execution.
Experts tell us the North American shale oil boom is responsible for low prices despite Middle East unrest. But the price slump serves Western aims of weakening Russia and Iran.
Warplanes under the command of renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar fired missiles at Misrata's rebel-held airport, as Libya's oil exports remain effectively paralyzed by civil war.
Gen. David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, said that ISIS has set up training camps in eastern Libya, and that the Pentagon is closely monitoring the situation.
The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee released a report finding that the Obama administration properly responded to the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
Libya's Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the UN-backed elected parliament, which has taken refuge in Tobruk, in a victory for the "rebel" parliament in Tripoli.
French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy was expelled from Tunisia following mass demonsrations that accused him of coming to the country to plot with Libyan jihadists.
Rival militias in Libya are committing serious human rights abuses, including war crimes, according to a new Amnesty International report.
A British court ruled that former Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj can sue the UK government for its alleged role in his detention and rendition.
