Since the Arab Spring swept away Muamar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya has almost become a byword for political instability. As Gaddafi’s regime had been in power since ousting King Idris in a coup ...

The conflict in Libya is not the first large-scale rebel uprising in the country; Libya has a history of armed protest movements. Prof. Ali Ahmida, chairman of the political science department at the ...

Editor’s Note: Alia Al-Senussi is a member of Libya’s royal family. Her family was exiled from Libya in 1969 after Moammar Gadhafi’s coup d’etat. She was born in Washington in 1983 to a Libyan father ...

But Libya began to become really alienated from him and began to–he began to rely more and more on security apparatus for sustaining his regime. The sanctions, Paul, led to unintended consequences ...

10 March 2011 The mysterious land of Libya, located at the heart of the Mediterranean and yet so isolated during the past few decades, has been through many changes in its long history. The current ...

If only restoring history could always be so easy. On a visit to Tripoli this year, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti returned the 2,000-year-old sculpted head of Domitilla Minor, the daughter of the ...

Sept. 12, 2012 -- intro: When a mob attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, it was just the latest in a series of security ...

SUSAH, Libya (Reuters) - A white foundation stone next to a deserted beach near the soporific Libyan port of Susah is all to show for a seven-year dream to build one of North Africa's biggest ports.

Decades of autocratic rule and an historically divided population have set the stage for unrest in Libya. Cambridge University's George Joffe and Chuck Cecil, former U.S. Liaison Officer in Libya, ...

In today's Libya, local is king. Yet, if the country is to become a functioning state governed by an elected leadership capable of empowering its citizens and providing an equitable distribution of ...

Editor’s Note: Alia Al-Senussi is a member of Libya’s royal family. Her family was exiled from Libya in 1969 after Moammar Gadhafi’s coup d’etat. She was born in Washington in 1983 to a Libyan father ...