Migrant smuggling is not a new phenomenon in Libya. In the post-Gaddafi period, the country has become the main corridor for illegal migration into Europe from the African continent.

To date, European attempts to curb migrant smuggling and trafficking have addressed symptoms rather than causes. Migratory flows have periodically fallen through a series of international policy ...

Bodies of migrants have been found near an "illegal" detention center in southeastern Libya and farther north toward Benghazi ...

Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-strick ...

The UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expressed alarm Wednesday at the discovery of two mass graves in Libya following raids by se ...

The discovery was made following a raid at a human trafficking center from where more than 70 migrants were rescued. Similar reports keep emerging, but neither the desperate aspirants nor the ...