One April evening in 1984, an after-work drink took a surreal turn. On the way to a bar, we skirted a police cordon at the entrance to St James’s Square in central London; we had barely lifted our ...

The latest reports from Libya suggest that the country's ruler, Muammar Qaddafi, is striking back violently against protesters in western cities near the capital of Tripoli, as military defections ...

Tripoli's Red Castle museum has reopened for the first time since the 2011 uprising that toppled Moammar Gadhafi, unveiling a trove of treasures that span millennia, from ancient mummies to relics of ...

Mustafa Abushagur was just a young man when he left his country and his family in the late 1970s, dissatisfied with the direction Libya was taking. Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was attempting to ...

A former University of Washington professor who helped lead the Libyan revolution is in Seattle today to talk to the public about his experience and personal political plans. This past March, Ali ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya imported $1.6 billion (1 billion pounds) worth of fuel during the six months of revolution, including from Qatar and Turkey, and has yet to repay $890 million, the interim ...

The Arab Spring saw several longtime leaders toppled by restless populations, but no nation's freedom from dictatorship was more hard-fought than Libya's. Click on the headline for dramatic photos ...

Politicised courts, outdated laws, and military trials undermine fair justice and silence dissent, Human Rights Watch warns, urging reforms, repeal of abusive laws, release of detainees, and ...

A coalition of 65 liberal parties led by Mahmoud Jibril, the war-time rebel prime minister, claimed an early lead in Libya’s first parliamentary election in 60 years, Reuters reported. Nine months ...

TRIPOLI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Libya is plunging into a cycle of tribal violence and retribution which, if left unchecked, could undermine the authority of its new leaders, spur new forms of insurgency ...