Libya is expelling Syria's diplomats because of the escalation of the government's crackdown on its people, Libya's Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.
The Pentagon starts an internal review of U.S. military capabilities in Syria. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Amid growing outrage over civilian casualties in Syria, there are ever more urgent calls to aid -- or at least protect -- the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. There is renewed talk of creating safe havens and humanitarian corridors inside the country. And those demanding tougher measures are again asking why events in Syria should not prompt Libyan-style intervention by NATO and its Arab allies.
Tuareg tribesman who reportedly fought for Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have returned to Mali with weapons, stoking violence and forcing thousands to flee, Mali's president said.
A Libyan diplomat died 24 hours after he was detained by a militia based in the city of Zintan, Human Rights Watch said.
Aisha Gadhafi, the daughter of Libya's deposed strongman Moammar Gadhafi, asked the International Criminal Court Tuesday to accept "concrete information" she believes may help her brother.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday met with Libya's prime minister during the African Union summit, and expressed "support for the interim government's work," according to a U.N. statement.
Amnesty International says several detainees in Libya have died after being tortured in recent weeks.
Several detainees in Libya have died after being tortured in recent weeks, the human rights group Amnesty International said Thursday.
Clashes between rival militias. Allegations of detainee torture. Assaults on the headquarters of the National Transitional Council, which governs Libya.
Conflicting reports emerged Monday about whether the son of Libya's deposed leader would be tried there.
Javier-Angel Balboa scored a dramatic late goal for Equatorial Guinea on Saturday as they beat Libya 1-0 in the opening match of the Africa Cup of Nations.
Police are to investigate claims that the British secret services were involved in the rendition of two men to Libya and their alleged ill treatment there, London's Metropolitan Police said Thursday.
CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports Libyan rebels got their most wanted man - Saif Al-Islam , Gadhafi's son.
Libyan authorities were granted more time Tuesday by the International Criminal Court to say whether they plan to hand over the deposed leader's son, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi.
Nine-year-old Mahmood Ahmed was playing near his home in Zintan, western Libya, when he found a green object he had never seen before.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, arrived in Libya Saturday to visit with the country's post-Gadhafi leaders.
A former Libyan military officer who fought against ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi's troops last year was picked to head the country's armed forces, a move that comes as tensions flare among rival militias.
Qatar, as diplomats say, likes to "punch above its weight." This arid peninsula in the Persian Gulf is smaller than Connecticut but played a leading role in helping Libyan rebels oust Moammar Gadhafi and has been at the heart of Arab League sanctions against Syria. It's now facilitating talks on the Afghan conflict by allowing the Taliban to open a liaison office in its capital, Doha.
Clashes erupted Tuesday in Libya's capital between militias from Tripoli and Misrata, killing four people, officials said.
Al Qaeda's leadership has sent experienced jihadists to Libya in an effort to build a fighting force there, according to a Libyan source briefed by Western counter-terrorism officials.
Photographer Gyula Sopronyi talks about how he captured footage of a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Libya on March 9.
Russia's call for an investigation into civilian deaths caused by NATO in Libya is a "cheap stunt," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday.
The son of Libya's former dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, should have immediate access to a lawyer, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
U.N. war-crimes prosecutors are leaving an investigation into the death of ousted Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi to Libyan authorities for now, they said Tuesday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed confidence in Libya's transition to democracy Saturday in the first visit to the country by a Pentagon chief.
The United Nations Security Council on Friday lifted sanctions on the Central Bank of Libya and the Libyan Foreign Bank, moves that were warmly received by the United States and Britain.
The U.N. refugee agency details the plight of thousands of Syrians who are fleeing to Libya to escape the violence.
CNN's Rima Maktabi with the tale of one man who managed to escape the brutal regime.
Pressure is growing for world leaders to respond to Syria's brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.
For the first time in three years, OPEC nations agreed Wednesday to a higher oil output level despite continuing uncertainty in the global economy.
Hers is a struggle shared by all freshly arrived refugees in the United States. Learning English. Getting a job. Adapting to American culture.
In March, a woman named Eman al-Obeidi was dragged away after accusing 15 members of Gadhafi's militia of sexual assault.
The daughter of ousted Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi is pressing U.N. war-crimes prosecutors to investigate the October deaths of her father and one of her brothers during Libya's civil war.
This year "will mark a turning point" in Afghanistan and other regions, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday.
Britain's Foreign Office is hopeful that Libya's new leaders will permit visits from police investigating the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and the 1984 slaying of a British police officer, shot dead outside the Libyan Embassy in London.
Saadi Gadhafi, a son of the deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, secretly tried to travel to Mexico using false documents, Mexico's interior minister said Wednesday.
CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports on the posture of former Gadhafi regime loyalists in the Libyan city of Bani Walid.
Rival revolutionary brigades remain almost entirely responsible for security in Libya, posing that country's most pressing challenge, according to the top United Nations envoy in Libya and a new U.N. report.
Libya could try Saif al-Islam Gadhafi itself rather than handing him over to International Criminal Court if Libya can prove it has a functioning justice system, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday.
Libya's acting prime minister on Tuesday announced a new Cabinet approved by the National Transitional Council as the North African nation continues to reshape itself following the end of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule.
Life in Libya's capital is slowly returning to normal. Producer Jomana Karadsheh shows us some of what's changed.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo arrived Tuesday in Libya following the weekend capture of Moammar Gadhafi's son and the late Libyan leader's intelligence chief, the ICC said.
CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports on a sign of change in Libya: Books are now freely available in the marketplace.
Harvard University named a Libyan reporter killed by sniper fire as the recipient of a prestigious journalism award for risking his life to inform others.
Libyan revolutionary forces have captured the country's former intelligence chief, National Transitional Council officials said Sunday.
Libyans celebrated late into the evening Saturday the reported capture of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, nabbed in a desert gunbattle after an 18-day stakeout.
Saif Al-Islam Gadhafi, the second oldest son of Moammar Gadhafi, is arrested in south Libya.
Here is a look at the family of Moammar Gadhafi -- a large, at times quarrelsome, clan that helped the embattled strongman hold onto power for more than four decades.
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Friday reinstating Libya to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
A top Libyan official on Monday slammed Niger's offer of amnesty to one of the late Moammar Gadhafi's sons, calling it a "challenge and provocation."
Niger's president is standing by his country's decision to offer amnesty to one of the late Moammar Gadhafi's sons, saying he is entitled to stay in his nation like other "Libyan refugees."
The looting of a large collection of priceless coins, statues and jewelry from a bank vault during Libya's recent civil war has highlighted the risk of looting during times of conflict.
A Tunisian court has rejected a request to release Libya's former prime minister, who is set to be extradited back to his country, Tunisia's official news agency reported Wednesday.
More than seven months after the U.N. Security Council authorized NATO forces to protect demonstrators in Libya, the aerial bombing campaign operation that helped depose longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi ended here Monday at midnight.
As NATO's mission in Libya comes to an end, Anders Rasmussen says the alliance has fulfilled its U.N. mandate.
Mercenary forces may be trying to help Moammar Gadhafi's son escape Libya, even as people linked to Saif Al-Islam Gadhafi have been in contact with the International Criminal Court about his possible surrender, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday.
NATO Sec. Gen. Rasmussen travels to Libya to mark the end of NATO operations today.
One of slain Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi's surviving sons is challenging an Interpol arrest warrant on the grounds that it is politically motivated and was sought by a new Libyan leadership that lacks legitimacy, a lawyer for Saadi Gadhafi said Wednesday.
The Libyan war may be over, but rivalries rage on among some regional militias, leading to a mutual distrust that poses a challenge to the new leadership.
Libya's transitional government picked an engineering professor and longtime exile as its acting prime minister Monday, with the new leader pledging to respect human rights and international law.
Two major announcements came out of Libya within 24 hours: The country's new authorities had discovered some of Moammar Gadhafi's chemical weapons and need help dealing with them, and NATO was ending its mission to protect Libya's civilians.
NATO Sec. Gen. Rasmussen travels to Libya to mark the end of NATO operations.
Libya's new authorities found chemical weapons about a month ago and asked for international aid in securing them, a top military spokesman for the National Transitional Council told CNN Monday.
With Gadhafi dead, victims of Libyan-sponsored terror seek compensation. Alina Cho reports.
Libya's transitional government would prefer to try former leader Moammar Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam in a Libyan court despite an arrest warrant issued for him by the International Criminal Court, a spokesman said Sunday.
Allegations of vengeful attacks against residents of Tawergha and Sirte -- both cities believed to have sided with former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi -- will be investigated, a military spokesman for Libya's National Transitional Council said Sunday
British soldiers involved in the NATO operation in Libya are headed home, the U.K. defence ministry said, following a decision to end the mission next week.
CNN's Dan Rivers reports there are strong indications that retaliatory executions may have occurred In Libya.
It's not often that the issue of polygamy makes it to the top of the political agenda. But in the past week it's become a litmus test for the course of the Arab spring, and part of the debate about the compatibility of Islam and democracy.
More than 300 wounded Libyans will arrive in Germany to be treated in hospitals within the next 10 days in an operation approved by Libya's interim government, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday.
The International Criminal Court says they're in "informal conversations" to bring Saif Gadhafi to The Hague.
After seven months of an aerial bombing campaign that helped depose Moammar Gadhafi, NATO said Friday it was ending its mission in Libya next week.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to end military operations in Libya.
Libya's new leader declares that Sharia law will be the 'main source' for new constitution, raising eyebrows.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's largest oil producers, may soon cut oil production.
Ivan Watson reports on the first fair and free elections of this year's popular upheaval in the Arab world.
In Tunisia, an Islamic party wins the election.
Apparently contradictory views emerged Wednesday about when Libya's fledgling government should begin operating without training wheels.
Author Robin Wright on what it will take for Libyan tribes to unite to form a new government.
After months of grinding civil war, with supporters of Moammar Gadhafi slowly yielding territory to anti-Gadhafi rebels, the final battle for Libya's liberation unleashed an apparent bloodbath.
Officials with Libya's interim government are reassuring the West that their religious views are moderate, after the country's interim leader called for the country's new laws to be based on Sharia, or Islamic law.
Zimbabwe's foreign minister is calling for reform of the United Nations Security Council following the "extrajudicial" killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was buried Tuesday morning, according to a National Transitional Council spokesman.
Five days after he was taken into custody and then killed in his hometown of Sirte, ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi was buried Tuesday, a National Transitional Council spokesman told CNN.
U.S. security policy showed the effects of two substantial pivots this past week: ramping down our role in regime transformation in one Arab country even while ramping up our responsibility in another.
Last week, Libya's former leader, Moammar Gadhafi, was killed, apparently by rebel forces. When he was captured, he was by all accounts alive, with a gunshot to the arm.
Western oil companies are eager to jump back into Libya, but without strong oil laws there they are hesitant to invest the billions of dollars needed to boost production.
As questions linger about his death and those of dozens of others, ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is likely to be buried Tuesday -- five days after he was killed in Sirte, and shortly after his body was displayed at a Misrata meat market -- a Libyan official said.
Libya's National Transitional Council announces elections within the next eight months. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Doctors completed an autopsy of Moammar Gadhafi on Sunday, with the chief pathologist confirming the former Libyan leader died of a gunshot wound to the head.
CNN's Dan Rivers reports Libyans are lining up to see the bodies of Moammar Gadhafi and his son in Misrata.
Libya's interim leaders declared the nation's freedom Sunday, ushering in a new era after the death of longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi.
John Defterios interviews Libya's interim prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril at the World Economic Forum in Jordan.
Libya's interim leaders will declare liberation on Sunday and hold elections in the coming months as the war-torn country works toward building a new society in the post-Moammar Gadhafi era.
CNN's Phil Black talks to NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen about the strategy going forward in Libya.
NATO will begin to scale back operations in Libya following Moammar Gadhafi's death, with the preliminary end date of October 31, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.
It was the year 2000. Standing at attention, a relatively unknown Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, only 18 months after taking office, was positioned right next to one of the world's most-controversial dictators.
When Libya first bought a 25-room, 1906 mansion in suburban New Jersey, the community was in an uproar.
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