Gaddafi Showers Strategic Oil Port With Rockets
RAS LANOUF, Libya -- Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with a withering rain of rockets and tank shells on Thursday...
RAS LANOUF, Libya -- Government forces drove hundreds of rebels from a strategic oil port with a withering rain of rockets and tank shells on Thursday...
Posted 03.10.2011 | Impact
Gaddafi may not be winning points with philanthropists around the world, but his money could do some major good. In February, cables released by th...
Ben Rosen | Posted 03.09.2011 | Politics
There I was yesterday morning, drinking my coffee and reading the latest about Libya in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Something was ...
AP/The Huffington Post | PAUL SCHEMM and MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 03.10.2011 | World
RAS LANOUF, Libya — Forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi struck an oil pipeline and oil storage facility Wednesday, sending a giant yellow fireball i...
Alireza Jafarzadeh | Posted 03.09.2011 | World
To no one's surprise, the regime ruling Iran is watching the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, searching for a way to exploit the outcomes to its advantage.
AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL and SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 03.10.2011 | World
CAIRO -- A high-ranking member of the Libyan military landed in Cairo on Wednesday and embassy staff told Egyptian officials that he was carrying a me...
Reuters/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.09.2011 | World
March 8, 2011 10:43:46 PM LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - Any no-fly zone over Libya must have international backing and not be a U.S.-led effort, ...
Posted 03.09.2011 | World
A number of politicians have come out in favor of intervention in Libya in recent days, including Senators John McCain and John Kerry, reports the Nat...
AP | PAUL SCHEMM and MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 03.09.2011 | World
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - After dramatic successes over the past weeks, Libya's rebel movement appears to have hit a wall of overwhelming power from loyal...
Los Angeles Times | David Zucchino | Posted 03.08.2011 | World
Reporting from Ras Lanuf, Libya On Saturday, Libyan rebels in jeans and sneakers danced in the streets of Bin Jawwad, celebrating a victory over gover...
AP/The Huffington Post | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 03.08.2011 | World
GENEVA (AP) -- Up to 1 million foreign workers and others trapped in Libya are expected to need emergency aid because of fighting in the North African...
Posted 03.08.2011 | World
A disturbing video surfaced on Monday allegedly showing Libyan soldiers who were killed for refusing to shoot rebels. Al Jazeera posted the video, and...
Reuters | Emma Farge | Posted 03.07.2011 | Business
LONDON (Reuters) - Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley has stopped trading oil with Libya, a trade source said on Monday, in an early indication that U...
Matt Wilstein | Posted 03.07.2011 | Comedy
In a week, Charlie Sheen went from being a mildly talented and successful sit-com actor to the most unhinged, obsessed-over drug addict on the planet.
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 03.07.2011 | World
RAS LANOUF, Libya - Libyan rebels said Monday they will regroup and bring in heavy weapons after forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi pounded opposition fi...
Terence Smith | Posted 03.04.2011 | Media
Extraordinary winds of change are blowing through the Arab world. It is huge news, so let's treat it with the professionalism and independence a truly monumental event deserves.
AP | BRADLEY KLAPPER | Posted 03.04.2011 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama insisted Thursday that Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi "step down from power and leave," his most explicit sta...
Paul Jay | Posted 03.03.2011 | World
On the streets of liberated Benghazi people say no to McCain, Lieberman and any U.S. intervention.
AP | By PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 03.03.2011 | World
BREGA, Libya -- Mutinous army units in pickup trucks armed with machine-guns and rocket launchers deployed around the strategic oil installation at Br...
The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 03.03.2011 | Comedy
On Wednesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart did his second segment on Libya since the populist uprising, this time focusing on Muammar Gaddafi's in...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 03.02.2011 | Media
As we watch uprisings in other parts of the world, we don't recognize that it takes popular participation to stop the bullying. Instead, we fix our own addictions by visiting the modern Coliseum of TV or Twitter to see who said what.
Dovid Efune | Posted 03.02.2011 | World
What would possess a Jew, whose family had suffered at Gaddafi's hands, to pursue an active agenda in service of Gaddafi's rehabilitation and the furthering of his twisted agenda?
AP/The Huffington Post | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 03.03.2011 | World
BREGA, Libya - Rebel forces routed troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in a fierce battle over an oil port Wednesday, scrambling over the dunes of a Medit...
AP/The Huffington Post | By ANITA SNOW | Posted 03.02.2011 | World
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. General Assembly suspended Libya from its top human rights body as governments worldwide pressured Muammar Gaddafi to ...
BBC News | Katherine Sellgren | Posted 03.01.2011 | College
The London School of Economics has confirmed it is investigating allegations that Colonel Gaddafi's son plagiarised his PhD thesis. Saif al-Islam stu...
AP | By PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 03.10.2011 | World