Libya News

Our Libyan Embassy and Consulate had experienced violence in the past. The ambassador had repeatedly requested that security be upgraded, but been denied by superiors in Washington, although not for lack of funds.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Lawlessness in Libya is a result of lack of security for judges and lawyers and the detention of 8,000 people without charges, a legal aid group said.

The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on newsgathering.

Senator Rand Paul said that the diplomatic facilities in Libya should be under the guard of military command rather than relying on local militia for security, and compared the "war-torn country" to Iraq.

Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has set the tone for his party's election campaign, saying the terrain "will be determined by those that are able to give answers to Zimbabwe's challenges". Tripoli - A bomb exploded on Saturday in a Tripoli street housing the Algerian, Greek and Saudi embassies, lightly damaging a car, hours after a soldier was ... (more)

Why are so many buildings around the world collapsing daily? What does it take to destroy a building's supporting structure, causing it to collapse without warning? The answer is simple: Planet X in the solar system is closing the gap between itself and Planet Earth.

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in an accident that sent more than 60 people to Connecticut hospitals, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested... Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in ... (more)

Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

Why was a diplomatic outpost left so poorly protected? Should the Pentagon have rushed jets or special forces to the rescue when the assault began? Did President Barack Obama's administration obscure the true nature of the terrorist attack to help him get re-elected? Congressional Republicans are poking for evidence of incompetence and cover-up in ... (more)

Fox News contributor and Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer pushed new and old falsehoods about the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, by misrepresenting recently-released emails that prove that government agencies drafted talking points without references to terrorism in order to protect the ongoing investigation into the ... (more)

In the most comprehensive media training programme to reach eastern Libya, IWPR has been working with newsrooms and individual reporters to raise standards and skills.

African Press Organization - IOM, in partnership with Tripoli University, has completed a six-month course for 31 Libyan health, educational and social experts on how to cope with psychological reactions in the aftermath of 2011 Libyan conflict.

Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan Tebu suffered from state-sanctioned discrimination, which stemmed in part from the failure of the semi-nomadic tribe to register under Libya's 1954 citizenship law.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior staff conducted a conference call with Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of the US mission in Libya, in the early morning hours of Sept.

On September 12, 2012, the American public awakened to news about the attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, which included the Obama administration's carefully calculated lie it was incited by a video that vilified Islam.

Canadian national security investigators are probing intelligence about figures in London, Ont., who allegedly promoted extreme views of Islam and may have encouraged young Muslim men and converts to go abroad , the Star has learned.

The president of the United States, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense have lied about the motivations leading to the murders at Benghazi on 9/11, blaming the attacks on an obscure, unknown video rather than a planned attack by the AlQaeda franchise, Ansar al Shariah.

Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave.

"A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al-Qaida is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead." - President Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, Sept.

Rome, May 15 - Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino on Wednesday confirmed that only 200 American troops were being moved to Sicily to be ready for rapid deployment if any new attacks occur in Libya.