At a former Army Air Defense base in a darkened, partially constructed neighborhood of Benghazi, Colonel Tarek Saad Hussein is readying the revolutionary forces for the ultimate battle. Libyan ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's apparent death from wounds received during the fall of Sirte means a long and complex trial that could have divided Libya and embarrassed Western governments and ...
This series examines the countries today from the perspective of our correspondents on the ground to see how the post-revolutionary countries have come full circle to their autocratic ways. The seeds ...
During 1986’s Operation El Dorado Canyon, an SR-71 Blackbird flew a daring post-strike reconnaissance mission over Libya, ...
A look at the autocrat’s 42 years in power Though he possessed enough wealth and power to own dozens of palaces, Gaddafi by many accounts preferred to live in a Bedouin tent pitched near his family ...
Thirteen years after he was brutally murdered by NATO-supported rebels, Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is back in the international spotlight after French prosecutors opened a trial against former ...
One of the most impressive questions to be posed by the death of Colonel Gaddafi was formulated by Raymond Ibrahim in a column for the Middle East Forum: “Gaddafi Dead — So What?” Mr. Ibrahim goes on ...
Libya's bloody revolution looks to be coming to a slightly more peaceful end after the country's former dictator Colonel Gaddafi was finally tracked down to a stormdrain in the country's capital, ...
It was the hopeful first spring of a new millennium, and yet an almighty stench from the previous one lingered. That May, in a court near Utrecht, the trial of two Libyans had begun so that a deadly ...
Al Jazeera has reported that Muaamar Gaddafi said he is not a president and so cannot resign, as well as denying that there were any protests in Libya (those people are “terrorists”). Also, he’s a ...
View post: Amazon Is Selling a 'Rugged' Craftsman Tool Box for Almost 30% Off It’s been a big month for Libya. First, convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was returned to the northern ...
Any Gaddafi trial would have been awkward and public Could have embarrassed Western states, oil funds Some worry former leader could be seen as martyr By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent ...