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  Injured rebels in Sirte, Libya in October Royal Preston Hospital has been called upon to treat some of the most serious casualties caught up in the Libyan conflict. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to offer NHS care to 50 (Continue Reading…)

Algiers – Algeria and Libya have signed an agreement to crack down on an illicit cross-border arms trade that has boomed following the fall of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, according to an Algerian news report. According to government intelligence, (Continue Reading…)

DUBAI – Libya’s government is in talks with International Finance Corporation executive Ahmed Ali Attiga to appoint him as head of its sovereign wealth fund, sources told Reuters. The Libyan Investment Authority, which owns stakes in Italian bank UniCredit and (Continue Reading…)

  Wpc Yvonne Fletcher was gunned down while on duty outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984   Scotland Yard detectives investigating the murder of Wpc Yvonne Fletcher are expected to be able to visit Libya “soon”. The commitment (Continue Reading…)

    The final battle for Muammar Gaddafi’s home-town last October was brutal and drawn-out. Hundreds died on both sides, and it is hard to find a building undamaged by bullets or shells. Occasionally you see grotesquely twisted concrete structures, (Continue Reading…)

Muammar Gadafy’s daughter has expressed concern that a United Nations commission looking into human rights violations during the Libya conflict is not trying to find out who killed her father. The circumstances of Gadafy’s killing on October 20th last year (Continue Reading…)

  Jehad Nga for The New York Times A Zintan militia member rested in a housing container in Tripoli. TRIPOLI, Libya — As the militiamen saw it, they had the best of intentions. They assaulted another militia at a seaside (Continue Reading…)

Tripoli, Libya The Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace (LWPP) welcomes the passage of a new electoral law, which guarantees women at least 40 seats on the 200-member Constituent Assembly that will draft the country’s new constitution. Libya’s National Transitional Council (Continue Reading…)

TRIPOLI, Libya – Libya has finalized a law to govern an election to choose a national assembly to draft a new constitution – a first step to setting up a new government after the ouster of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. The (Continue Reading…)

I was a member of the Executive council at the National Transitional Council (NTC) during the uprising and liberation of Libya. To get a clearer picture of what the Libyan people are facing in the months to come, I will (Continue Reading…)