Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have hijacked a Libyan-owned cargo ship thought to be carrying 17 seafarers from Romania and Libya, a European Union anti-piracy force and a maritime group said ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar as "nothing but a pirate" in comments published Thursday amid rising tensions in the North African country.

U.S. Marines raised U.S. flag over shores of Tripoli on this day in history, April 27, 1805. Marines marched 400 miles from Alexandria, Egypt, to secure critical victory over pirate states in the ...

Shortly after America had achieved its independence from Great Britain, the new nation confronted a threat from the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Beginning in 1784, raiders from ...

At least 55 people were killed and 146 others injured when clashes broke out between two powerful armed factions in the southern Libyan capital of Tripoli, emergency services spokesman Malik ...