Libyan Revolution

Gadhafi's overthrow and death six years ago reversed the fortunes of his clan and allies, who thrived under his patronage for more than four decades. Tens of thousands of his loyalists fled into exile when he was killed, many to neighboring Egypt. They have remained ever since, yearning for a role in shaping a new Libya.

A Libyan court passed a death sentence in absentia on Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son Saif al-Islam today for suppressing peaceful protests during the country's 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule.

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.

A Libyan court will rule on July 28 on a son of Muammar Gaddafi and 36 other former regime officials accused of war crimes and suppressing peaceful protests during the 2011 revolution, a state prosecutor said on Monday.

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi, his special forces commander who fled abroad during Libya's 2011 revolution, was imprisoned in Tripoli on Thursday after Niger agreed to send him back from house arrest there.

When you're the single, attractive secretary of state for the United States, you're bound to pick up groupies in all corners of the international diplomatic scene. But for Condoleezza Rice, who has been linked with diplomats from Rome (the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema) to London (Foreign Minister Jack Straw of Britain) to Pictou, Nova...

Libyan rebels may be low on weapons needed to topple Moammar Gaddhafi, but there is certainly no shortage of souvenirs available commemorating the revolution.Roughly a dozen stands set up outside the courthouse in downtown Benghazi, the de facto capital of rebel-held eastern Libya, sell a dizzying array of hats, scarves, T-shirts, coffee mugs, pins...

Gadhafi's overthrow and death six years ago reversed the fortunes of his clan and allies, who thrived under his patronage for more than four decades. Tens of thousands of his loyalists fled into exile when he was killed, many to neighboring Egypt. They have remained ever since, yearning for a role in shaping a new Libya.

A Libyan court passed a death sentence in absentia on Muammar Gaddafi's most prominent son Saif al-Islam today for suppressing peaceful protests during the country's 2011 revolution that ended his father's rule.

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.

A Libyan court will rule on July 28 on a son of Muammar Gaddafi and 36 other former regime officials accused of war crimes and suppressing peaceful protests during the 2011 revolution, a state prosecutor said on Monday.

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi, his special forces commander who fled abroad during Libya's 2011 revolution, was imprisoned in Tripoli on Thursday after Niger agreed to send him back from house arrest there.

When you're the single, attractive secretary of state for the United States, you're bound to pick up groupies in all corners of the international diplomatic scene. But for Condoleezza Rice, who has been linked with diplomats from Rome (the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema) to London (Foreign Minister Jack Straw of Britain) to Pictou, Nova...

Libyan rebels may be low on weapons needed to topple Moammar Gaddhafi, but there is certainly no shortage of souvenirs available commemorating the revolution.Roughly a dozen stands set up outside the courthouse in downtown Benghazi, the de facto capital of rebel-held eastern Libya, sell a dizzying array of hats, scarves, T-shirts, coffee mugs, pins...