A senior United Nations diplomat says Libya continues to face a difficult transition from the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, whose 42-year rule ended in 2011.
Tarek Mitri, the United Nations special representative for Libya, told the U.N. Security...
The Arab Spring countries are still in the process of remaking themselves. Consider Libya, where militia fighters continue to roam the streets, yet a new private radio station does not hesitate to criticize the armed groups.» E-Mail...
With Salafist mobs succeeding in toppling and defacing Sufi shrines in Libya last year, it should have come as no surprise when, a few months, later, the phenomenon was repeated by agents of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), spreading guns and...
Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) is usually quick to admit that he's prone to making mistakes while behind a podium, and on Saturday he did so again, just moments before appearing to confuse Libya with Lebanon.
“I fear where we’ve come to in America,...
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, with the help of guest Dick Cheney, peddled a number of long-debunked myths about the September 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, including the false claims that President Obama...
Two politicians in Libya are due to appear in court, and face the death penalty, after publishing a cartoon on women’s rights deemed to be offensive to Islam.
June 14, 2013
International
The Libyan authorities...
"The intrusions were detected in December, when Attkisson was reporting almost exclusively on the government’s response to the terrorist attacks on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.... Attkisson has previously investigated the Department of...
Fox & Friends aired a flawed poll question which falsely asserted that President Obama abandoned Americans under attack in Benghazi, Libya, in reaction to General Martin Dempsey reaffirming that no "stand down" order was issued to...
WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency that is conducting high-profile investigations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four...
“Where is the president?” Charles Krauthammer asked on Special Report. Citing the troop increase in Afghanistan and the eventual withdrawal, Krauthammer observed, “He simply initiates, like in Libya, then he doesn’t lead.”
“On this...
The State Department releases remarks from the swearing-in ceremony for U.S. Ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones…note that Sec. Kerry mentions the passing of Amb. Chris Stevens.
Remarks
John Kerry
Secretary of State
Benjamin Franklin...
Libya is struggling to keep its oil output stable, let alone increase it, as protests cut crude exports in the sector that supplies 95 percent of state revenue.
In the past year, disgruntled Libyans have protested at oilfields and export ports,...
The American military abandoned the M40 recoilless rifle after Vietnam. Yet the weapon keeps showing up in Libya and Syria, decades after its supposed retirement.
Italy’s foreign minister has rejected comparisons between the current anti-government protests in Turkey and the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled governments in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.
Just over two years ago, Air Force Major General Margaret Woodward was leading the U.S. air war against Libya that ultimately toppled Muammar Gaddafi — and has been hailed as one of the Obama Administration’s foreign-policy triumphs. Now...
James Joyner
NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterated Friday that the Alliance will not intervene militarily in Syria. While he repeatedly made the same assurances regarding Libya before NATO's ultimate action, there's good...
"... in an outpouring of public anger at the armed bands that have been blamed for fueling political violence and undermining a fledgling state."
It was not the first time that Benghazi’s residents have lashed out against the militias: in...
June 10, 2013: Most Recent News & Opinion Posts from THE WEEK
June 10On this day. 1801: Under President Jefferson's orders, the U.S. went to war against the Barbary coast states of North Africa. Pirates from what are today Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria captured merchant ships and held crews for ransom....
