In Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya, people used to say, “We had one enemy.” Today, “people don’t know who their enemy is.” That is how Magda Mughrabi, a Libya researcher for Amnesty International, described ...

This series examines the countries today from the perspective of our correspondents on the ground to see how the post-revolutionary countries have come full circle to their autocratic ways. The seeds ...

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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Mustafa Gheriani was a construction contractor shuttling between the United States and Libya when the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi broke out. Iman Bughaeis was teaching ...

In 2008, Issa Hakim left Libya to start his Masters in engineering at Lehigh University. Three years later, he felt it necessary to return to his home country to fight alongside family and friends.

David Greene revisits his 2011 trip to Libya and the period following the fall of Moammar Ghaddafi, to try to understand how the revolution... How The Libyan Revolution Opened The Door To The Islamic ...

Celebrations to mark the second anniversary of the Libyan revolution began in all corners of Libya on Sunday, including in the capital city of Tripoli. The center of celebrations in Tripoli was the ...

Syrian rebels stand on a picture of President Bashar al-Assad in the northern city of Aleppo on August 20, 2012. Fighting raged in Aleppo as rebels doggedly resisted a regime onslaught launched in the ...

A former University of Washington professor who helped lead the Libyan revolution is in Seattle today to talk to the public about his experience and personal political plans. This past March, Ali ...