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Car bomb kills three outside hospital in Libya’s Benghazi
A car bomb killed at least three people outside a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Monday, witnesses said, in a further sign of the violent disorder plaguing the country since the 2011 revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. Only one of the dead was carried into the hospital intact, a doctor told [...]
Libya protests prompt U.S. to evacuate diplomats
Growing concerns over protests roiling Libya prompted the State Department to begin evacuating some diplomats from Tripoli, as the Pentagon put troops stationed at nearby European bases on high alert. The response was driven in part by the controversy over lax security at U.S. diplomatic installations in Libya last year, when four U.S. government employees, [...]
Imam Moussa al-Sadr was murdered in Libya, report
The Shiite Imam Moussa Al-Sadr who went missing during his visit to Libya in 1978 was killed by the regime of Moammar Gaddafi according to a report by Now Lebanon. This revelation could spell the end of the controversy on the spiritual leader’s mysterious disappearance in Libya. “Sadr was murdered, and his killers are now [...]
Obama picks new U.S. ambassador to Libya
A veteran diplomat who’s served in Syria, Kuwait and Turkey will return to the Middle East as the new U.S. ambassador to Libya, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday. If confirmed by the Senate, Deborah K. Jones will fill a post that’s been vacant since the previous envoy, Ambassador Christopher Stevens, died along with three other [...]
Libya Crackdown on Lebanese with Iranian visas
Reports that Libya has banned foreigners with Iranian visas in their passports from entering the country appear to be only partly true. An immigration official at Tripoli International Airport said that the ban applies solely to Lebanese passport holders with Iranian visas. However, other immigration sources have said that the ban includes Syrians with Iranian [...]
Europeans Warned to Evacuate Libya’s Benghazi
Several European governments urged their citizens to evacuate the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in response to what the U.K. described as “a specific and imminent threat to Westerners,” highlighting jitters in the region after last week’s deadly hostage siege at a natural-gas facility in Algeria. The U.K. Foreign Office didn’t provide further detail as [...]
3 US state dept officials quit over Benghazi attack
Three US State Department officials resigned under pressure on Wednesday following a report that detailed “grossly inadequate” security measures at the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya, on the night assailants besieged it in September, leaving four Americans dead, The Associated Press reported. Show More Summary
US State Dept Faulted in Libya Attack
The US State Department suffered from “systemic failures” in its response to the terrorist threat in Benghazi, Libya, and had insufficient numbers of security on the ground, according to an independent panel investigating the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate there. The report confirms that intelligence agencies and the White House erred in initial [...]
Lebanon banks target Iraq, Libya as home market stalls
Lebanon’s biggest bank, Bank Audi, will launch operations in Iraq next year and its rival Byblos Bank is to enter the Libyan market as both contend with a flagging domestic economy. Domestic operations have become increasingly important for Lebanese banks hit by falling returns in war-torn Syria, traditionally their biggest international market. However, Lebanon’s [...]
Libya: Benghazi security chief assassinated
The security chief in the east Libyan city of Benghazi was assassinated late on Tuesday, a security official told AFP. Unknown people opened fire from a car at Fraj al-Dersi in front of his home. He was hit by three bullets and died shortly after being taken to Benghazi medical centre, the official said, asking [...]
Petraeus testifies that Benghazi attack was terrorist act
After avoiding a swarm of awaiting reporters and photographers, former CIA director David Petraeus testified behind closed doors Friday that he believes the Sept. 11 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya was an act of terrorism that did not arise out of a spontaneous demonstration, according to a lawmaker who heard the [...]
The collateral damage of Syria’s explosion
While Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Tunisia implode, writes Thomas L. Friedman, Syria will explode if a political resolution is not found quickly, sending the entire region into chaos
Ali Zaidan elected as Libya’s new PM
Libya’s National Congress elected former congressman Ali Zaidan as the country’s new prime minister, and gave him two weeks to form a government. Zaidan beat out Mohamed Al-Harari, a local government minister, in a 93-85 vote with one lawmaker filing an empty ballot, Mohammed Magariaf, president of the parliament, said in televised comments after the [...]
Libyan official pledges to dissolve militias after mass protests
The head of Libya’s national congress has vowed to dissolve the country’s militias, in the wake of demonstrations against them. Mohammed Magarief called on Libyans to stop carrying weapons and said that checkpoints and patrols set up by illegitimate groups would be banned. His words came as the two main Islamist militias in the eastern [...]
Libya’s Ansar al-Sharia militia swept out of Benghazi bases
The powerful Islamist militia Washington blames for an attack on its Benghazi consulate was swept from its heavily fortified bases in Libya’s second city in a mass popular uprising in support of the government early on Saturday. The action against Ansar al-Sharia appeared to be part of a coordinated sweep of militia headquarters buildings by [...]
U.S. Names al Qaeda in Libya Attack
U.S. intelligence officials are investigating indications that al Qaeda’s North African affiliate is connected with militants involved in the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, the top U.S. counterterrorism official said, providing the first public acknowledgment of the extremist movement’s possible involvement in the deadly assault. Show More Summary
Iran: Anti-Islam film ‘did not warrant’ US deaths
An anti-Islam film made in America that has enraged Muslims in several countries did not justify the killing of the US ambassador in Libya, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday. “Definitely this did not warrant killing,” General Mohammad Ali Jafari told a rare news conference in Tehran. It was the first time [...]
Libyan president “determined” to catch attackers
Libya’s president expressed confidence Friday that authorities would capture “sooner or later” the people behind this week’s attack that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. In an interview with CBS News correspondentShow More Summary
Pope’s Lebanon visit made urgent by Syria’s war
The brutal civil war in Syria and the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya have given a sense of urgency to Pope Benedict XVI’s trip this week to Lebanon, a mission he describes as a pilgrimage of peace for the entire region. The three-day visit starting Friday will take the pope to the nation [...]
U.S. Envoy to Libya Is Killed by an armed mob
The United States ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed along with three of his staff in an attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi Tuesday night by an armed mob angry over a short American-made video mocking Islam’s founding prophet, the White House and Libyan officials said on Wednesday. In a statement confirming the [...]