Ali Zeidan

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  A Front-Row Seat as Libya's Hopes Faded

  Late last year I was sitting in Tripoli's foreign ministry when a guard drew a gun on a colleague next to me and then kicked him down a stairwell. His mistake? He had complained about a news conference being delayed.

• Libya PM quits, says was victim of 'traitorous' attack

  Libya's prime minister Abdullah al-Thani stepped down on Sunday, saying he and his family had been the victims of a "traitorous" armed attack the previous day.

• Brent steadies below $112, holds near 3-week high

  Brent crude steadied below $112 a barrel on Thursday, holding near a three-week high touched earlier in the session, as a civil unrest in Africa reduced supply.

• Libyan army clashes with Islamist militants, nine killed

  Clashes between Libyan troops and militants in the eastern city of Benghazi on Monday killed at least nine people and wounded a dozen.

• Libyan Prime Minister calls brief abduction a 'coup' by foes

  Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said on Friday former rebels who abducted him briefly were part of an attempted "coup" by his opponents in the country's legislature, accusing them of seeking to undermine his government.

• Libyan PM Ali Zeidan freed after several hours held by militia

  Gunmen seized Prime Minister Ali Zeidan in Tripoli today and held him for several hours before he was freed, in the latest sign of Libya's lawlessness since Moamer Kadhafi was toppled in 2011.

• Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan freed after being seized over US raid: officials

  Former rebel gunmen freed Libya's prime minister on Thursday after holding him for several hours in reprisal for the capture by U.S. forces at the weekend of a Libyan al Qaeda suspect in Tripoli, officials said.

• Seized Libyan PM Ali Zeidan in good health, treated well: official

  Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan is in "good health and will be treated well as a Libyan citizen," and is being held at the Interior Ministry's anti-crime department, an official with the department told the state news agency.

• Ex-rebels seize Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan over al Qaeda arrest

  Gunmen from a former rebel faction kidnapped Libya's prime minister on Thursday in reprisal for the government's role in the US capture of a top al Qaeda suspect, shattering a fragile peace.

• Libya's national assembly elects former diplomat as Prime Minister

  Libya's national assembly elected a new Prime Minister on Sunday, the second within a month to face the daunting challenge of forming a government acceptable to the country's many factions.