FILE - A view of a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about ...

Libya’s cheap power fueled a covert Bitcoin mining boom. This article explains how it began and why authorities are now cracking down.

Let's imagine that post-Gadhafi Libya avoids devolving into chaos. For the new leadership, there's good news and bad news. The good news is black gold. Libya has some of the finest oil in the world to ...

Libya has become the site of a proxy war between Russia and Turkey. The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), which Turkey, Italy, and Qatar support, fights with the rebel forces of commander ...

As its economy slowly becomes more open, Libya is attracting the attention of a wider range of potential investors than just adventurous oil companies. In the old days of the Soviet Union, ...

Since the United States led a NATO military intervention in 2011 to overthrow longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi, Libya has been wracked by violent power struggles among an assortment of armed militias ...

Jacob Mundy has received funding from the Project on Middle East Political Science, the Lampert Institute for Civic and Global Affairs, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, the International ...

The Italians supplanted the Ottoman Turks from the area around Tripoli in 1911 and did not relinquish their hold until 1943 when defeated in World War II. Libya then passed to UN administration and ...

True, some freedom fighters have not yet put down their weapons, but there have been no major clashes among the militias that helped free Libya. Moreover, Libya is closely following the roadmap for ...

Libya is engulfed in its deadliest fighting since the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi, pushing the country to the brink of collapse and creating a "giant black hole for security" in the region, experts warn ...

reporting from TOBRUK, Libya — The seaside hotel that serves as the last redoubt of Libya’s internationally recognized government is named Dar al-Salam, or House of Peace. But beyond the confines of ...

The whereabouts of ousted Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan were a mystery Wednesday after he flew out of the country the night before, despite a prosecutor’s order he not leave after his removal from ...