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Gaddafi drew on its inhabitants to staff key positions in his security services. It was the last city outside of Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte to fall to the rebels; and his son SaIf al-Islam ...
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - After four months under siege, signs of recovery are showing up in the western port city that was so central to the revolt that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
Muammar Gaddafi was killed after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as “rats”, cornered and shot in the head after they overran his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of ...
They were unceremoniously kicked out and declared "personae non gratae," a source on the European side told Euronews at the time, adding that the delegation was caught in a diplomatic “trap” in which ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) -At least 18 migrants died in a shipwreck off the city of Tobruk in eastern Libya over the weekend, and 50 are still missing, the International Organization for Migration said on ...
In 2011, the United States spearheaded the international effort to save the city of Benghazi from attack by Libya’s longtime dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a well-intentioned move that fell ...
Moammar Gaddafi, Libya's leader since 1969, who has portrayed himself alternately as a pan-Arab revolutionary and a pan-African liberator, has announced an opening to the West.
At least 18 migrants died in a shipwreck off the city of Tobruk in eastern Libya over the weekend, and 50 are still missing, ...
The monument, which Gaddafi erected to show his defiance after a 1986 U.S. bombing campaign, now sits amid concrete piping at the brigade's seaside base, covered in graffiti and Libya's tricolour ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) -At least 18 migrants died in a shipwreck off the city of Tobruk in eastern Libya over the weekend, and 50 are still missing, the International Organization for Migration said on ...