Three teams, including Save the Children, work to transport 412 migrants from a smuggler’s boat to rescue ships off the coast of northern Libya. The migrants, who came from 13 countries, were then transported to Sicily. In the background is
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“Be Aware Brother, Be Aware Sister” — “Aware Migrants”
“Be aware brother, be aware sister” is the song that Rokia Traoré has written specially for the Aware Migrants Project. Malian singer Rokia Traoré has released a new single – “Be Aware Brother, Be Aware Sister” – as part of the…
Thousands Saved Off Coast of Libya
Migrants and refugees are rescued from a wooden boat off Libya on Monday. Photo: AP The Italian navy and a number of search and rescue boats have saved nearly 7,000 migrants and refugees off the Libyan coast since Monday, in…
Aboard a Mediterranean rescue ship, migrants share horror stories from Libya
The sea route from Libya to Italy is dangerous, even deadly, for African migrants and refugees who are desperate to cross. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant from PBS reports from a Doctors Without Borders rescue ship that’s attempting to save people…
Libya: U.S. Special Forces take fight to ISIS – CNN.com
Misrata, Libya (CNN)It is a tiny, remote aircraft hangar, carved in the Sicilian rock decades ago, but now home to a new and vital front for the United States against ISIS.
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Massive loss of life reported in latest Mediterranean tragedy
A boat carrying refugees and migrants drifts on the Mediterranean Sea shortly before rescue by the Italian Navy in 2014.
The UN Refugee Agency reports on the latest refugee tragedy from Europe. A UN Refugee Agency team has interviewed survivors…
Clinton: We didn t lose a single person in Libya « Hot Air
Yes, they certainly do ignore the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. But these remarks ignore a lot more than that. Qaddafi s Libya was a brutal dictatorship, but one that had been cooperating in some part against radical Islamist terrorist…
US Adds More Countries to the Visa Waiver Program Restrictions
By Liz LaRocca
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced Thursday, February 18, 2015, that it is expanding the list of countries that will restrict travel with the Visa Waiver Program (“VWP”). The program lets citizens of certain countries travel to the US…
Reported two-month gap in Clinton emails coincides with escalating Libya violence | Fox News
A reported two-month gap in emails from Hillary Clinton's private account during 2012 coincides with a period of escalating violence in Libya and the obtaining of a special exemption by her top aide, Huma Abedin, to work for both the…