This weekend saw the end of the nearly two week siege of the foreign and justice ministries by armed militias in Tripoli.  The armed groups had besieged the ministries beginning in late April demanding the passage of a ...

The political stand-off in Libya's capital continued after armed militias, who were demanding passage of a political isolation law, refused to leave their posts after the law was passed by parliament. Instead, after having their demands met, the militias formed an ...

Libya's parliament passed a law on Sunday that will ban a wide range of Gaddafi-era officials from positions in the new government, following demands from armed militias who surrounded government buildings in Tripoli last week. Following the vote, parliament spokesman Omar Hmaiden ...

Freedom House released its annual report on freedom of the press around the world in 2012. The report identified a global decline, asserting that "the percentage of people worldwide who enjoy a free media environment fell to its ...

On Sunday, men armed with AK-47s, sniper rifles and anti-aircraft guns blocked roads around the Libyan Foreign Ministry. They surrounded the building and called for passage of a political isolation law that would ban officials who had served under the ...

In its latest human rights report on Libya, the U.S. State Department lays out the country's most pressing human rights concerns. Libya's "most significant human rights problems during the year resulted from the absence of effective justice and ...

In an effort to tamp down on unwieldy militias that often take the law into their own hands, Libya's General National Congress (GNC) approved a law criminalizing torture and abductions on Tuesday. Many of the former revolutionary militias continue to ...

To prevent collapse, Libya needs to engage in national reconciliation with the support of the international community, Karim Mezran of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center writes. Cautioning the implosion of the state and a return to authoritarian rule ...

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) visited Libya on Thursday for the fifth time since the country's revolution. He met with Prime Minister Ali Zidane, the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defense, and Justice, and the president of Libya's General National ...

Ali Aujali, Libya's ambassador to the U.S., resigned Monday evening. He did not give a reason for his departure.  Serving as former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's ambassador to the U.S. since 2009, Aujali quit that post at the onset of the ...

Hassan El Amin, the head of Libya's parliamentary human rights committee, has fled the country after receiving death threats from militia members. El Amin recently criticized the militias' unchecked power and legal violations, and he told The Washington Times, "The ...

President Barack Obama announced his nomination of Deborah K. Jones for the position of Ambassador to Libya. Jones joined the Department of State in 1982 and served as Ambassador to Kuwait from 2008 to 2011. Her ...

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, speaking at the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva Wednesday, vowed his country will fully respect human rights. Recognizing that Libya is still suffering the consequences of Qaddafi's long dictatorship, ...

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met with the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi, in Paris Sunday to discuss a broad range of issues, including potential bilateral talks on Iran's nuclear program, human rights violations, ...

Libya's  General National Congress voted Wednesday to directly elect the 60  members to the Constitutional Commission. A  previous National Transitional Council declaration stipulated that the members would be appointed, but disagreements over the makeup of the body's membership ...

A pair of Libyan youth advocacy organizations have launchedan English-language report, Eye on GNC, detailing the work and legislation of Libya's General National Congress.  The two organizations, Bokra and H2O Team, based out of Benghazi and Tripoli, respectively, ...