REUTERS By Jessica Donati, Ghaith Shennib and Firas Bosalum BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Abdul Basit Haroun says he is behind some of the biggest shipments of weapons from Libya to Syria, which he delivers on chartered flights to neighboring countries and then smuggles over the border. After fleeing Libya in […]
How Tripoli, Egypt, and Zanzibar rode 19th-century European expeditions to profit by Dane Kennedy, Boston Globe In June 1857, the British explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke set […]
AFP | Jan 21, 2013 | 22:46 Updated: Jan 21, 2013 | 22:46 THE HAGUE — Lawyers defending Muammar Qadhafi’s son Seif Al Islam at the International Criminal Court on Monday accused Libyan authorities of conducting a “Kafka-esque show trial” after he appeared in a court in his homeland for […]
Switzerland is to provide $2.9 million (SFr3.1 million) to help resettle Chadians who had been working for many years in Libya, and returned home during and after the uprising that […]
Agence France Presse ARABNEWS Friday 28 December 2012 BENGHAZI, Libya: Some 2,000 people rallied in Libya’s second city Benghazi on Friday to demand that militias made up of former rebels […]
By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. WASHINGTON — The weaknesses with the handling of diplomatic security in Benghazi, Libya, that led to a deadly attack on a diplomatic outpost there were […]
American who fought with anti-Gadaffi rebels turns up in Aleppo and claims to be filming a documentary Share209 Katie Rogers, guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 November 2012 An American who fought alongside […]
by Islah Bakhat, swissinfo.ch The Arab Spring represents a tectonic shift in the region’s political landscape. Yet two years on, divisions between secularists and Islamists risk stalling the revolutions. Simmering angers over poverty remain and women’s rights progress is sketchy. “Every time society feels its hard-won gains are in danger, […]
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
Reuters | Dec 03, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES LONDON/TRIPOLI — Libya is having to pay extra for food imports and traders say some foreign firms are diverting shipments elsewhere due […]
Story Summary The witness accounts gathered by The Associated Press give a from-the-ground perspective for the sharply partisan debate in the U.S. over the attack that left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead. Within 24 hours of the attack, both the embassy in Tripoli and the CIA […]
Witnesses: Libya consulate attack seemed planned, may have used anti-Islam … Fox News TRIPOLI, Libya – It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants, sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks […]
Thousands of migrants struggle to survive after being forced to return home in the wake of the revolt against Gaddafi. A group of Chadian migrants woke one morning to find […]
Omar al-Saleh Omar al-Saleh is a senior producer with Al Jazeera, based in Doha and reporting from around the Middle East. Libya’s authorities say Gaddafi loyalists have taken Bani Walid […]
CAIRO – Libyan rebels appear to have “summarily executed” scores of fighters loyal to Moammar Qaddafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown a year ago, a […]
Source: BBC The prisoners are said to be of various nationalities and officials say about 60 have so far been recaptured. It is not clear how the breakout happened. Al-Judaida is one of Tripoli’s largest jails. Human rights groups accuse officials of abusing inmates. The mass escape comes less than […]
The rulers of several major Arab nations have accused the Muslim Brotherhood of ambitions to seize power illegitimately. Several governments branded the organization a major threat to stability as the party’s influence grows steadily. After the Muslim Brotherhood legally took power in Egypt’s elections, with Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi becoming […]
IBRAHIM NAFFEE ARABNEWS JEDDAH: A quarter of the 7,000 places for Libyan pilgrims to Makkah this year have been reserved for the martyrs’ families of Libyan revolutionaries. A diplomat at […]
As the clock ticks on a decision about whether and how to target suspects in the Benghazi attacks, intelligence officials say the president might lose his shot if he doesn’t […]
Parvez Ahmed The Huff Pos Associate Professor of Finance, Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida Muslims Abroad Should Respect the American Tradition of Free Speech as They Debate […]