Libya News

Egypt's first air-taxi company, Alkan Air has said it has reduced its fares in order to generate business, Arabian Aerospace has reported.

New York, Feb 7 2012 4:10PM A new United Nations food voucher scheme aims to help vulnerable families in the Libyan port city of Benghazi get the food they need while also boosting the local economy in the wake of the conflict that wracked the country last year.

Inspectors searching for shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles amassed by Moammar Gadhafi and prized by terrorists can't account for potentially thousands of them.

One of the first announcements made by Libya's National Transitional Council after the fall of Tripoli last August was a promise to all those wounded in the fight against former leader Muammar Gaddafi.

A Muslim civil rights group wants the Justice Department to investigate the tactics of FBI agents in Portland, Ore., after two Libyan-Americans from the area were recently barred from returning to the United States.

China defended its rejection of a U.N. resolution pressing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to abandon power, with a top state newspaper saying Western intervention in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq exposed the risks of forced regime change.

One of Libya's many new militias has been accused of detaining and apparently torturing to death a former ambassador to France, the latest allegation of brutality to mar the victorious revolutionaries' reputation since the fall of Col.

A Chinese Commerce Ministry delegation held talks Monday with Libyan officials on bilateral cooperation and resumption of Chinese businesses in post-war Libya.

Ontario police are investigating a horrific crash between a flatbed truck and a large passenger van that killed 11 people.

The U.S. State Department shuttered its embassy in Syria and pulled out its remaining staff Monday after the government refused to address its security concerns, senior State Department officials tell CNN.

The collective effort to identify the unusual cluster bombs found in several places last year in Libya has yet to reach an answer, or even a consensus on the likely origins of the mystery submunitions.

Syrians and their supporters in Libya beset the Chinese embassy in Tripoli on Monday, hurling eggs, rocks and tomatoes, to show their anger over the decision by the Chinese regime to veto a UN Security Council resolution that would have urged Syria's ruler Bashar al-Assad to step down.

Gunmen killed five Libyan refugees at their camp in a Tripoli suburb Monday, residents and hospital sources said, underscoring the volatility in the country months after Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow.

In October 2011, the African Union's Peace and Security Council at its 297th meeting authorised the opening of an AU liaison office in Tripoli.

The men face charges [ Tripoli Post report] of murder and helping prisoners escape.

Moammar Gadhafi, is expected to begin in a few weeks, according to reports by the country's National Transitional Council .

Headlines flash by from Tokyo, Tripoli, Washington and Wall Street and the mouth begs the mind for mini-reality checks for the sake of intellectual honesty and integrity, or just plain sanity.

Several dozens of Syrian protesters stormed the Russian embassy in Libyan capital of Tripoli on Sunday, a day after Russia and China had blocked the UN resolution on Syrian crisis, RIA Novosti reported.

Libya has put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime which was ousted after a bloody conflict.

It's been almost a year since Benghazi launched its uprising against former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi and three months since he was killed, but there is a growing sense of frustration in eastern Libya with the National Transitional Council.