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The reporters -- four Libyans and one Egyptian -- had been working for Barqa TV.

Fighters from the two groups have been clashing sporadically for the past month.

A top U.N. human rights official singled out a Sun newspaper column that compared migrants from Africa to cockroaches.

Migrants fleeing war, poverty and repression in the Middle East and Africa are increasingly turning to the Balkans as a land route to western Europe.

European leaders also called on African nations to take responsibility for the migrant crisis.

The American A-10 and Romania's Soviet-built MiG-21 jet were built to fight each other. Now they're training together to fend off Russians.

While protesters largely condemned the actions of the extremist group, several anti-government slogans were also seen at the rally.

As many as 900 people may have died on Sunday off Libya's coast when their packed boat capsized as they were trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa.

If the trend continues, fatalities this year will soon exceed those for all of last year, the International Organization for Migration fears.

A Christian town in Lebanon has taken up arms against the Islamic State — with help from a very unlikely source.

Over the weekend, nearly 800 migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya in a ship headed for Europe.

Eight hundred migrants are confirmed to have perished when a ship capsized off the coast of Italy earlier this week.

A bomb exploded in front of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital late on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of attacks on foreign missions in the North African country.

The crackdown on people smugglers advocated by various European officials will be difficult to implement.

Three other rescue operations were underway on Monday to save hundreds more migrants in peril on overloaded vessels making the journey from the north coast of Africa to Europe.

The meeting marked the first time a delegation from the Conference of European Rabbis was received at the Vatican.

EU leaders will reportedly also discuss options that include a naval mission to stop arms and oil smuggling off the Libyan coast.

In a new video, ISIS showed two groups of Christians being executed.

Two groups of captives appear to have been killed in the video released by the Islamic State group Sunday.

Only 28 have been rescued so far and 24 bodies recovered in the second such incident in a week.

As the Republican field remains wide open, candidates tried to distinguish themselves from their potential opponents. Donald Trump made an appearance, too.