ROME (AP) — Human rights groups voiced outrage Wednesday after Italy released a Libyan warlord on a technicality, after he ...

Osama Elmasry Njeem faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over his role in running notorious prison ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been placed under judicial investigation after her government released a Libyan police officer wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Under a deal with the North African country dating from 2017 and renewed under Italy's current hard-right government, Rome was to provide funding and training to the Libyan coastguard. In exchange, ...

A senior member of Libya's judicial police has been given a hero's welcome back home after Italy unexpectedly released him ...

In response to Italy’s failure to surrender Osama Elmasry Njeem to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International ...

Italy's government said Thursday a Libyan police chief arrested on a war crimes warrant was flown home after a court found no basis to detain him -- and he was too dangerous to remain.

“Al-Masri was released by an order of Rome’s Court of Appeal ... It was not a government choice,” Meloni told journalists during a trip to Saudi Arabia. Italy has close ties to Libya’s ...

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday confirmed it had issued an arrest warrant for the head of Libya's judicial ...

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 ...

ROME — Italy's prime minister on Saturday addressed growing criticism of the repatriation of a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court, as Giorgia Meloni cited an appeals court ...

Al-Masri had been arrested Sunday in Turin, where he reportedly had attended the Juventus-Milan soccer match the night before ...