Osama Elmasry Njeem, who was wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes, was recently freed by Rome. The move prompted outrage ...

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, left, and Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, right, attend a debate in the Italian ...

ROME — Italy’s justice minister strongly ... since it freed al-Masri from prison on Jan. 21 and sent him back to Libya aboard an Italian military aircraft. Al-Masri heads the Tripoli branch ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday she had been placed under judicial investigation following a government decision to release a Libyan police officer wanted by the ...

Italy Under Fire From International Criminal Court for Releasing Libya Warlord Accused of War Crimes ROME (AP) — Human rights groups voiced outrage Wednesday after Italy released a Libyan warlord on a ...

Italy's justice minister, on Wednesday, defended the decision to repatriate accused Libyan war criminal Osama Njeem, blaming the International Criminal Court (ICC)'s allegedly 'flawed' arrest ...

ROME - Migrants expressed their dismay and sense ... allegedly committed in Libya from February 2015. Several of his alleged victims are believed to have been migrants. Njeem, who has not publicly ...

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, ...

The man was apprehended in the northern city of Turin, the source told Reuters, adding the case had been forwarded to the justice ministry and the appeals court in Rome. Libyan authorities were ...

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 (AP) — Italian police arrested a Libyan ... but an Italian tribunal refused to approve the arrest and he was instead sent back to Libya, Italy’s state-run RAI television reported.