Tag: Muammar Gaddafi

It has been more than a decade since Libyan head of the state for 42 years Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in a public uprising....

French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy blasted what he said was a lack of evidence for the corruption charges against him over claims the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi funded his 2007 election campaign.

PARIS: French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody on Tuesday and questioned over allegations that late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi financed his...

A throwback picture of popular Indian actress Katrina Kaif with late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is going viral on the internet. The picture, featuring Gaddafi...

TRIPOLI: An armed group in Libya said on Saturday that it has freed Seif al-Islam, the son of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi who has...

  TRIPOLI: Five years since Muammar Gaddafi was killed in a NATO-backed uprising, the strongman's quixotic Green Book -- once Libya's sacred and ever-present scripture...

TRIPOLI: A bomb exploded in front of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital late on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of attacks on foreign missions in the North African country.

CAIRO/TUNIS: Tunisia and Egypt's Cairo airport cancelled most flights to and from Libya on Thursday, officials said, days after the Libyan government said unidentified war planes had attacked positions of armed groups in Tripoli.

TRIPOLI: Heavy fighting erupted on Sunday around Tripoli International Airport, where rival militias have been battling for control, killing at least four people and forcing thousands from their homes, local residents and witnesses said.

BENGHAZI: The suspected ringleader of a 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, snatched this week by U.S. forces, had been fighting a...

TRIPOLI: A Libyan renegade general has agreed to observe a ceasefire in his declared war on militant Islamists during national elections on June 25,...

TRIPOLI: Unidentified gunmen fired a rocket propelled grenade at the office of new Libyan Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq on Wednesday, one of his aides...