Though the revolution united most Libyans, the inspiration driving revolutionary groups to fight against the Gaddafi regime was not the same.
AP | By JEFF KAROUB | Posted 02.17.2012
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- More than two years ago, Faeirouz Elbergwa was among a select group of Libyans sent by her government to an American university...
Saeb El Kasm | Posted 01.21.2012
Along with a record of overwhelming human rights abuses, Gaddafi left his people with a country rife with corruption, poverty and severe internal divisions.
AP | By SARAH BRUMFIELD | Posted 05.24.2012
LINTHICUM, Md. -- An American writer who went missing in Libya for months returned to the United States on Saturday night, telling reporters he went t...
Shervin Pishevar | Posted 12.22.2011
Yesterday, history was made in Libya and Libya is free after decades of brutal dictatorship. I was in Tripoli and Benghazi only 2 weeks ago visiting some of the bravest young people I have ever met.
AP | Posted 12.11.2011
BAMAKO, Mali — The spokesman for a hardline Tuareg rebel group in Mali says that his group is working with Tuareg fighters recently returned fro...
AP | CHRISTOPHER GILLETTE and KIM GAMEL | Posted 12.08.2011
SIRTE, Libya — Libyan revolutionary forces claimed to have captured parts of a sprawling convention center that loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi hav...
AP | By TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 11.20.2011
UNITED NATIONS -- The new Libya will join the international community as a nation committed to peace, security, and democracy, the head of the transit...
AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 11.16.2011
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. General Assembly voted Friday to give Libya's seat in the world body to the former...
AP | By BEN HUBBARD and RYAN LUCAS | Posted 11.15.2011
By BEN HUBBARD and RYAN LUCAS, The Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- In the turmoil since Moammar Gadhafi's fall, Fathi Sherif got a new job:...
AP | By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 11.13.2011
WADI DINAR, Libya -- The streets are now no man's lands. Stores were emptied of food and water days ago. Expert snipers on rooftops watch over one of ...
AP | DALATOU MAMANE and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 11.11.2011
NIAMEY, Niger — A convoy carrying ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son al-Saadi has crossed into neighboring Niger, a spokesman for Niger'...
AP | By RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 11.07.2011
By RAMI AL-SHAHEIBI and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, The Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- From hiding, Muammar Gaddafi denied rumors that he fled Lib...
AP | BEN HUBBARD | Posted 11.07.2011
By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libyan fighters have surrounded ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and it is only a matter of time...
AP | HADEEL AL-SHALCHI and MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 11.04.2011
TARHOUNA, Libya — Negotiations over the surrender of one of Moammar Gadhafi's remaining strongholds have collapsed, and Libyan rebels were waiti...
AP | By MATTHEW LEE | Posted 10.31.2011
By MATTHEW LEE, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Wednesday it will continue to press Libyan rebels to review t...
AP | By ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 10.31.2011
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's top leader warned the Arab world Wednesday not to allow Western powers and Israel to "confiscate" the region's pro-reform upris...
AP | By KARIN LAUB and PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 10.26.2011
By KARIN LAUB and PAUL SCHEMM, The Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Tripoli began to look like a solidly rebel-held city on Friday, the calm...
AP/The Huffington Post | By PAUL SCHEMM and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI | Posted 10.25.2011
UPDATE [6:36 pm ET] - Per Reuters: @ Reuters : Rebel leadership officially announces move to govern Libya from Tripoli ORIGINAL R...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 10.24.2011
Even as fierce fighting still roils Tripoli, the capital of Libya's beleaguered dictator Muammar Gaddafi, new information is emerging about the major ...
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 10.24.2011
Every armed conflict is accompanied by a propaganda war, and I don't blame the rebels for reporting gossip or lies or wishful thinking if it serves their aims. That's war. But I expect our supposedly free and informed journalists to be skeptical.
AP | KARIN LAUB and BEN HUBBARD | Posted 10.22.2011
By KARIN LAUB and BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Fresh fighting erupted in Tripoli on Tuesday hours after Muammar Gaddafi's s...
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.22.2011
Barack Obama's gamble in providing limited support for a conflict in Libya, in which other countries played lead roles, now seems like a winning move.
AP/The Huffington Post | By KARIN LAUB and BEN HUBBARD | Posted 10.21.2011
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli Sunday and met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 42-year ru...
Press Association | Press Association | Posted 10.06.2011
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Libyan rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi's forces say they have launched a major push toward a key town along the Mediterranean coa...
Gilbert Doumit | Posted 04.04.2012