Sarkozy stands accused of having illegally accepted money from the late Libyan dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, to finance his first presidential campaign. The brash, tough-talking former interior minister, ...

In power in Libya for 42 years, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi used the country’s oil billions to sponsor insurgencies across Africa ...

Syria’s energy crisis deepened throughout the 13 years of the Assad regime with heavy reliance on Iranian imports ...

The British government lobbied for an arms agreement with Libya on behalf of aerospace company BAE Systems while Tony Blair ...

Expanding Russia’s presence in Africa through its positions in Syria and Libya had been a goal of Kremlin planners since ...

Elections were also held in Libya after the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011, but the country has been partitioned since civil war broke out three years later. In Yemen, the departure of ...

A senior official from Libya's UN-recognised government met Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Saturday and ...

The fighting in the coastal city which is about 47 kilometres west of the capital Tripoli, pitted gunmen loyal to the Shurafaa ethnic group against warlord Mohamed Kushlaf, according to local media.

Competitive colonialism, nationalist, revolutionary and ethnic aspirations, rogue rulers and industrial and criminal ...

Oil-rich Libya has been divided for years between rival administrations in the east and west. It plunged into chaos following ...