Forces for and against the Libyan government continue to battle for al-Zawiya, 50 kilometers west of the capital Tripoli. In the opposition-held east, rebel forces claimed control of the oil town Ras Lanuf, and vowed to continue their march along the...
Insurgents opposed to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to hold two strategic towns along the road to eastern Libya, after unsuccessful attempts by pro-Gadhafi forces to retake them. Libyan warplanes launched new air strikes Thursday against the...
Groups opposed to Liyban leader Moammar Gadhafi say they are in control of most of the eastern part of the country and plan to keep pushing until the current government is gone. The opposition says there is no room for compromise. The uprising that i...
Libya's former justice minister, who has resigned following the government's crackdown on protestors there, says the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie plane bombing in 1988. Mr. Gadhafi has always denied that he knew o...
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continue to attack anti-government protesters, but the opposition groups appear to be gaining more of a foothold, despite the brutal crackdown. The official picture coming out of Libya is far different fr...
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalgam met Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other officials Thursday in a meeting underlining an improving bilateral relationship. The U.S. side raised human rights cases and lingering compensation issues...
Libyan head of state Moammar Gadhafi is in Mauritania, where he opened multi-lateral talks aimed at resolving the months-old political crisis there. Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi (file photo) In his capacity as current head of the African Union, Li...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 10 December 2007 Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi arrives in Paris Monday for a five-day visit that has already generated a storm of protest from those who have not forgotten Libya's reputation as a supporter of terrorism. Lisa Brya...
By Sonja Pace London 28 June 2007 A jailed Libyan intelligence officer has won the right to appeal his conviction in the downing of an American airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. A judicial review panel now says he may have been wrongly convi...
By Sabina Castelfranco A group of Libyan-born Italians will return to Tripoli, Wednesday, for the first time since they were expelled when Colonel Moammar Gaddafi took power. Some 20,000 Italians were...
