Libya News

Etisalat, the Gulf's largest telecom firm, wants to acquire a licence in Libya or invest in one of the North African country's existing operators, its chairman told Reuters on Monday.

When diplomats talk about military involvement to halt the bloodshed in Syria, they often make comparisons with Libya, whether they back military intervention or are against it.

BAGHDAD Iraq's capital is embracing Valentine's Day this year with a huge public display of affection in what its residents say is the nation's most amorous celebration of the holiday ever.

For more than four decades, Col. Muammar Gaddafi sought to impose his bizarre ideas on all Libyans, especially the young.

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son and one-time heir apparent of toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, will be moved to a Tripoli prison within two months and then face trial, said Mustafa Abdul Jalil the chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council , in an interview on Sunday.Three months after his capture in Libya's Sahara dressed ... ... Read the ... (more)

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Lies, deceit, blackmail, bullying, murder, torture, concentration camps, destruction of property, looting, massacres... all these words pale into insignificance when we look at what NATO has done in Libya - and intends to do to Syria within a few days.

A gunman takes position in the Sunni neighbourhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh during clashes between Lebanese Sunni Muslims hostile to Syria's ruling regime and Alawites who support it in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, on February 11, 2012.

The diplomatic row between the West and Russia over Syria at the United Nations Security Council is a clear indication of Syria's strategic importance for Moscow.

Nobody doubts that the NHS needs repairing. But most people, if asked how to fix it, would not come up with the vast and complex scheme adopted by Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary.

A Libyan military leader who is demanding compensation over claims that MI6 agents were complicit in his torture ran up a 1.5million bill by occupying 50 rooms in a luxury hotel in Tripoli.

Film shows three men tying up blood-spattered man before whipping him with cables and touching him on his skin with electric wires Man, suspected by rebels of having supported Gaddafi, told: 'Blood will come from your eyes and nose until you admit what you have done' A terrified Libyan man is beaten and tortured with electric shocks by youths who ... (more)

One of the sons of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday threatened to lead an uprising against the country's transitional government.

Syrian men use a laptop outside the Syrian Embassy in Tripoli. Graffiti on the wall reads, "Overthrow Bashar, Free Syria." DAMASCUS - Syria has told Libya and Tunisia to close their embassies in Damascus within 72 hours, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday, after the two North African countries announced similar measures against Syria.

As the militiamen saw it, they had the best of intentions. They assaulted another militia at a seaside base here this week to rescue a woman who had been abducted.

Her Majesty's 'International Brigade' in Syria Today, Corriere della Sera prominently covered the British-controlled "Libyan Legion" deployed in Syria against Assad.

Since the fighting in Mali erupted in mid-January, dozens have been reported killed on both sides and at least 60,000 civilians have fled their homes in a Sahel region already facing a humanitarian crisis from the latest of its recurrent droughts.

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.

Montreal-based, global engineering giant SNC-Lavalin will continue to hold off on doing projects in Libya "until the situation stabilizes." Company spokeswoman Leslie Quinton told QMI Agency the news in an e-mail Friday, just hours after the firm announced two of its employees - including an executive vice-president - are "no longer with the ... (more)

On Wednesday, Libya's interim government announced that it had finalized an election law to govern the choosing of a new 200-member National Assembly.