Here's some background information about the civil war that took place in Libya in 2011. Timeline: February 16, 2011 - Police crack down on protesters as anti-government demonstrations take place in ...

An uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule rapidly spreads, becoming an armed revolt aided by NATO airstrikes. Gaddafi is ousted in August and killed in October by rebels as flees his ...

RAS JDIR, Libya (Reuters) - His Kalashnikov across his back, Libyan soldier Adel Howas rushed to the front line when air strikes targeted his comrades at a border crossing with Tunisia. For Howas, it ...

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Since the night of February 16, 2011 (#Feb17) Libyans have been protesting one of the world’s most intractable governments: that of Muammar Al Gaddafi. Colonel Gadaffi came to power in a 1969 coup ...

President Obama could get a second chance to sell Congress on the military operation in Libya, thanks to some last-minute help from an unlikely ally: House Speaker John A. Boehner. On Thursday, with ...

As foreign leaders prepare to meet in Brussels on March 24 to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some online have accused NATO of hypocrisy, sharing exaggerated statistics related to the ...

The U.S. launched a new bombing campaign in Libya on Monday — just five years after another disastrous bombing campaign that plunged the country into chaos. This makes Libya the seventh ...

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, has been released, according to the militia group that has held him since 2011. Gadhafi was released from the northwestern Libyan city ...