The Italian government has been under fire from the ICC, human rights groups and opposition lawmakers ever since it freed ...

Italy’s actions are indicative of a systemic issue where legal technicalities are exploited to shield individuals who serve ...

The government attributed the release to procedural reasons. But critics say it is because Italy depends on Libya to stem the flow of migrants from Africa. By Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been placed under judicial investigation after her government released a ...

How the Libyan conflict transformed human trafficking routes in West Africa, and why Europe’s response has so far failed.

But Rome’s court of appeals ordered al-Masri freed Tuesday, and he was sent back to Libya aboard an aircraft of the Italian secret services, because of what the appeals court said was a ...

Italy faces scrutiny as the International Criminal Court seeks clarity on why a suspected Libyan criminal, Ossama al-Masri, ...

Libya’s Chief of Judicial Police, Osama “Al Masri” Njeem, returned to Libya on an Italian government plane after his arrest in Italy on January 19 on an International Criminal Court (ICC ...

Italy has close ties to Libya's internationally recognized government in Tripoli and relies on it to patrol its coasts and prevent migrants from leaving. Any trial of al-Masri in The Hague could ...

Everything has returned to normal in the village of Gjader and the port town of Shengjin in northwestern Albania. The ...

A refugee advocate caught up in an Italian political scandal over the recent release of an alleged war criminal was targeted ...

Opposition members of parliament display placards in Italian reading "Meloni where are you?", during a debate in the Italian lower Chamber in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, over the controversial ...