Among those killed were dozens of American college students flying home for Christmas.

A Maltese special operations team on Thursday boarded a tanker that had been hijacked by migrants rescued at sea.

President Donald Trump says North Korea's latest statement on nuclear talks is "good news" and that "we will soon see where it will lead."

President Trump says a captured militant who was involved in the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, will "face justice" in the U.S.

After hours of tense negotiations, two Libyans who hijacked a plane from Libya to Malta and threatened to blow it up surrendered peacefully Friday, allowing 118 passengers and crew to leave the plane before walking out themselves with the last of the crew.

Malta's government says the small plane that crashed in a fireball soon after takeoff, killing all five crew members aboard, had been heading to Libya's coast to monitor migrant trafficking routes for the French government.

ROME (AP) - Italy's foreign ministry says that two Italian workers have been kidnapped in Libya.  

The Pentagon has announced that, at the request of the United Nations-backed Libyan government, the U.S. has begun conducting airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Libya.

Libya's navy spokesman says that more than 100 bodies of migrants have been retrieved after a boat capsized off Libya's shores.