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Muammar Gadhafi

In this August, 2016 file photo, migrants, most of them from Eritrea, jump into the water from a crowded wooden boat as they are helped by members of an NGO during a rescue operation at the Mediterranean sea, about 13 miles north of Sabratha, Libya. (AP)

Libya says it intercepts boat with 53 migrants off coast

Khalifa Haftar

Debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. (AP)

82 migrants missing at sea day after deadly Libya airstrike

Zarzis

Migrants, who were rescued after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian Coast after they had left Libya, are seen inside a local Red Cresent chapter in Zarzis, Tunisia May 11, 2019. (Reuters)

Migrant boat with 86 on board sinks off Tunisia, 4 rescued

Chamseddine Bourassine

Tunisian fishermen prepare their nets inside a boat in the port of Zarzis in the southern coast of Tunisia on May 21, 2019. (AFP)

Tunisia fishermen turn life-savers in the Mediterranean

Libya

A file photo shows children of migrants being rescued in the Central Mediterranean Sea at 45 miles (72 kilometers) from Libya’s al-Khums. (AP)

Libya confirms it rescued 290 migrants in Mediterranean

Tunisisa

Survivors of a boat carrying migrants that sunk in the Mediterranean during the night of 9 and 10 May, gather at a shelter in the Tunisian coastal city of Zarzis on May 11, 2019. (AFP)

60 migrants drown off Tunisia: Red Crescent

Lebanon

Foreign nationals working as domestics workers take part in a parade to mark May Day and to highlight their plight on May 1, 2016, in the Lebanese capital Beirut. (AFP)

Amnesty International urges Lebanon to help end domestic worker abuse

migrants

A general view shows the Court of Palermo in Sicily on February 14, 2019. (AFP)

Salvini declares Italy's ports 'closed' for migrant rescue ships

Libya

In this May, 2017 file photo, members of the Libyan National Army (LNA), also known as the forces loyal to Marshal Khalifa Haftar, clash with jihadists in Benghazi's Al-Hout market area. (AFP)

US experts call for new US engagement in Libya