LIBYA

Jihadist groups in North Africa need millions to finance their activities, so they have moved on from kidnapping to something much more lucrative: drug trafficking.

In its propaganda magazine, the Islamic State group suggests the possibility of bringing a nuclear weapon to the United States through drug routes.

The campaign was launched after Pope Francis called attention to the modern-day persecution and killing of Christians across the globe.

As well-armed criminal groups kill Africa’s elephants at an alarming rate, anti-poaching groups are becoming “militarized” in response.

Some jihadist groups in West Africa are putting their hands on heavy weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles.

ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on a Libyan town. Military leaders responded by calling for military mobilization.

ISIS fighters seized an airport in Sirte, hometown of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

According to a United Nations report, about 795 million people worldwide are going hungry today -- a fall of over 21 percent in the last 25 years.

The controversial policy, it is feared, may influence more people to cross the Mediterranean and seek asylum in European countries.

Libya's internationally recognized prime minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, said Tuesday he had survived an assassination attempt after leaving a session of the anarchic country's elected parliament.

Mohamed El Harari, a spokesman for Tripoli-based state oil firm NOC, said the Libyan tanker Anwar Afriqya had been carrying fuel for Sirte's power plant.

Pictures posted online overnight by the group's supporters showed fighters raising a flag over Syria's historic city of Palmyra.

Among the 300 pages of private emails released on Friday are messages relating to the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Emails exchanged by Hillary Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal show that the latter had obtained information about unrest in Libya through “sensitive sources."

A focus group took issue with Clinton's campaign strategy in Iowa, but say there's no real alternative.

The 22-year-old Moroccan man, identified as Touil Abdel Majeed, had arrived in the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle along with 90 other migrants.

Algerian troops ambushed and killed at least 22 militants allied to Islamic State as they held a meeting east of the capital on Tuesday in one of country's largest military operations in recent years, the defense ministry and a security source said.

The naval mission, once approved by the U.N., would allow the destruction of traffickers’ boats.

The United States and United Nations expressed deep concern on Monday about the death sentences handed down in Egypt for President Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists, while Turkey warned of Middle East turmoil if they are carried out.

Almost 3,600 migrants have been rescued from overcrowded boats sailing from Africa to Europe over the past 48 hours, Italy said on Thursday, with sea conditions seen as perfect for attempting the crossing.

In a rare audio statement released Thursday, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on all Muslims to fight a war in which the "Islamic State is merely the spearhead."