Tripoli (Libya)

Syria's government presses battle in key rebel city of Qusair

2013-05-20 08:11:00

BEIRUT -- Renewed clashes were reported Monday in the strategic Syrian city of Qusair, where government forces pressed an offensive aimed at chasing rebels from the supply and logistics hub. There were conflicting accounts from the government and the...

Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack

2013-05-08 16:27:00

WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....

Republicans say military could have done more in Benghazi

2013-05-07 20:45:00

WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in the political battle over the killing of four Americans in Libya is unfolding this week, with Republicans pointing to the testimony of a State Department official as evidence that the U.S. military could have...

Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya

2013-04-08 21:09:00

ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock. The rebels who captured him after the 2011 civil war that toppled his father have refused to turn him over to the central...

Arab hip-hop's El Rass takes on rap and revolution

2013-03-30 10:00:00

BEIRUT — When Mazen El Sayed, a.k.a. El Rass, picks up a microphone, his provocative phrasings may lock in on any number of targets: Islamic clerics, the West, Arab regimes, social inequities. "We are all made from the same steel," the Lebanese hip-...

Libya ordered to surrender former Kadafi spy chief

2013-02-07 10:32:00

Libya must hand over its former intelligence chief under ousted strongman Moammar Kadafi, the International Criminal Court has ordered. The push to surrender Abdullah Senussi �is the latest turn in the tug-of-war over where Kadafi insiders will stand...

Panel faults security failures in Benghazi attacks

2012-12-18 23:03:00

WASHINGTON — The State Department was guilty of "systematic failures" in security that made the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Libya possible, a high-level investigative panel concluded in an unflinching examination made...

Death toll rises as protests rage over Muhammad-mocking video

2012-09-14 12:33:58

Syria-related clashes again break out in Lebanon

2012-08-21 08:33:59

1 killed in Lebanon in anti-U.S. protest; smoke near Tunis embassy

2012-09-14 08:52:33

About 50 Marines heading to Libya to increase security at embassy

2012-09-12 08:13:49

Kadafi spy chief sent to Libya amid worries about fair trial

2012-09-05 10:53:47

Libyan camel and Horse riders arrive in Tripoli's landmark Maryrs square to welcom the flame of Freedom and Development after it travelled from Benghazi, Sabah and Zuwahara marking the opening of the second Libyan International Fair in Tripoli, Libya.

2013-04-01 00:00:00

In this photo posted on the Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, on Aug. 27, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, left, shakes hands with a Libyan man in Tripoli.

2012-09-12 08:33:00

In this photo posted on the Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, on Aug. 27, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, left, shakes hands with a Libyan man in Tripoli. Libyan officials say the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans have been killed in an attack on the U.S.

2012-09-12 00:00:00