Gunmen attack Libyan military air base, killing 2
Source: The Boston Globe
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-30 10:06:59 -0700 | travel-news
Libya (AP) A Libyan military spokesman says more than 150 gunmen have attacked an air base in the country's southern desert, killing two government troops. Saad al-Orfi says the attack early Saturday targeted a military air base about 45 kilometers...
Libyan official: 3 activists raped by militiamen
Source: The Daily Star
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-29 17:42:31 -0700 | travel-news
Three female British activists of Pakistani origin were raped by Libyan pro-government militiamen in the eastern city of Benghazi, after joining an aid convoy bound for Gaza to break an Israeli blockade, officials from several countries confirmed on Friday.
Libya 'plans to spend $4.7B on defense'
Source: United Press International
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-26 13:55:27 -0700 | travel-news
Libya, still gripped by fierce militia rivalries 18 months after the downfall of Moammar Gadhafi , is reported to be planning to spend some $4.7 billion on upgrading its dilapidated military forces over the next year, including purchases of fighter...
R2P After Syria
Source: Foreign Affairs
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-26 11:44:28 -0700 | travel-news
Children in Deir al-Zour, Syria, March 2013 (Courtesy Reuters) The international community has also developed better tools for managing and preventing conflicts. Peace agreements are more effective and less likely to break down. Transitional justice institutions, including the International...
Libya PM: Gaddafi's son in good health
Source: Reuters
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-07-17 17:22:27 -0700 | technology-news
Topics Saif al-Islam is seen after his capture, in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Obari, Libya November 19, 2011. Libya's prime minister met war crimes prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday and reassured him that Muammar Gaddafi's detained son is...
Assailants attack UN convoy in Libya, no one hurt
Source: Fox News
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-06-10 18:52:00 -0700 | political-news
Libya Security officials say assailants in an eastern Libyan city have thrown a homemade bomb at a U.N. convoy in which the world body's top diplomat in the country was traveling. They said that neither Ian Martin nor any...
World Briefing | Middle East: Libya: Speedy Trial Planned for a Son of Qaddafi
Source: Newyork Times
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-06-10 08:43:28 -0700 | political-news
Muammar el-Qaddafi 's son and former heir apparent, Seif al-Islam , will be put on trial inside Libya , and there will be a verdict before mid-June, a Libyan official said Monday. Human rights groups have appealed to Libyan authorities...
U.S., Libya Pursue Probes of Oil Giants
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-06-08 16:22:40 -0700 | business-news
Authorities in the U.S. and Libya are investigating oil giants such as Italy's Eni SpA and France's Total SA over their past relations with the fallen Libyan regime, potentially casting a cloud on the companies' ambitions to expand their foothold...
US hails Qaddafi spymaster's arrest
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-19 23:24:44 -0700 | political-news
The United States on Monday welcomed news of the arrest in Mauritania of late Libyan strongman Moammar Qaddafi's former spy chief but sidestepped a feud on to where he should be extradited. Abdullah Senussi, long one of Libya's most feared...
The ‘Phoenicia’ – Hannibal Gaddafi’s luxury cruise liner with live sharks on board
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Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-07-27 22:58:40 -0700 | travel-news
Hannibal, the 4th son of Col Gaddafi, was a man with an affinity for water. A trained seaman, he was the in-charge of Libya’s Maritime industry. 36-year old Hannibal Gaddafi was planning to own a dream luxury cruise liner 'Phoenicia'...
Like something out of James Bond: Inside Gaddafi's son's ship of sharks
Source: Mail Online UK
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-18 06:59:50 -0700 | political-news
17 March 2012 An imposing glass tank to house six pet sharks on board a luxury ship is the kind of feature normally associated with a villain from a James Bond film. But the attraction shown here for the first...
Anti-Assad protest held in Tripoli’s Al-Menyeh
Source: NOW Lebanon
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-11 14:50:03 -0700 | disasters-news
An anti-Syrian regime protest was held on Sunday in the Tripoli area of Al-Menyeh, the National News Agency reported. The protest was organized by March 14 parties and by independent civil society groups. The protesters chanted and held banners condemning...
VIDEO: Call for federalism in Libya
Source: BBC
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2012-05-07 09:57:55 -0700 | political-news
Semi-autonomy declared by leaders in east 7 March 2012 Last updated at 02:47 ET Tribal leaders and militia commanders in the Libyan city of Benghazi have declared their region to be semi-autonomous. They say the move is necessary as the...
Eastern Libya Demands Measure of Autonomy
Source: Newyork Times
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2012-05-06 23:51:08 -0700 | business-news
Challenging the country's transitional leaders in the nation's capital, Tripoli, the 3,000 people assembled in an old soap factory near the regional capital, Benghazi, also announced unilateral plans to begin establishing their own autonomous government.
Libyans hold funerals for 163 from mass grave
Source: NOW Lebanon
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2012-05-06 13:43:47 -0700 | political-news
Thousands of Libyans massed in the eastern city of Benghazi on Monday for the burial of 163 people whose bodies were found in a mass grave, an AFP journalist said. The funeral comes a day after the bodies were transferred...
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