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          Tripoli

          Tanks and pipelines damaged in fighting at the port of Ras Lanuf are pictured in this photo from January 11, 2017. Esam Omran Al Fetori / Reuters

          Battle for Libya’s key oil ports takes dramatic turn

          WorldMarch 08, 2017
          Zambo participants march through the streets of Tripoli’s Mina district on February 26, 2017. Josh Wood for The National

          Zambo in Tripoli – Lebanon’s Mardi Gras on the Med

          WorldFebruary 27, 2017
          A demonstrator holds a picture of Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar during a protest in Benghazi, Libya, February 12, 2017. Esam Omran Al Fetori / Reuters

          Prospects for unity in Libya fade as rival leaders refuse to meet in Cairo

          WorldFebruary 16, 2017

          Emirati man held in Libya killed by intelligence officer

          WorldJanuary 25, 2017
          Khalifa Ghweil delivers a speech in Tripoli's Martyr's Square on August 13, 2016. Mahmud Turkia/AFP

          Rival government’s forces seize ministries from UN-backed Libyan PM

          WorldJanuary 12, 2017
          Members of the Libyan Red Crescent help a woman who was aboard a boat that arrived to the shore of the Andalus district of the capital, Tripoli. Taha Jawashi / AFP

          Tragic end for migrants who thought they had reached Italy after boat trip from Libya

          WorldJanuary 05, 2017
          Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord walk in the Al Giza Al Bahriya area of Sirte during a clean-up operation on December 8, 2016. AFP

          No respite for Libya after ISIL driven from Qaddafi’s hometown

          WorldDecember 10, 2016
          Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government celebrate after they finished clearing Ghiza Bahriya, the final district of the former ISIL stronghold of Sirte, Libya, December 6, 2016. Hani Amara /Reuters

          Libya militias battle for control of oil ports

          WorldDecember 07, 2016
          US Secretary of State John Kerry, attends a meeting at the Foreign Office in London aimed at breaking Libya's political stalemate and resolve its acute cash shortage. (Peter Nicholls/Pool via AP)

          Expenditure council aims to save Libya from financial ruin

          WorldNovember 01, 2016
          Members of the forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) gather in the coastal city of Sirte, east of the capital Tripoli, during their military operation to clear ISIL from the city, on October 14, 2016. Mahmud Turkia / AFP

          Gunmen storm Libya’s UN-backed government in attempted coup

          WorldOctober 15, 2016
          A Libyan fighter allied with the UN-backed government fires a shell at ISIL fighters in Sirte on August 2, 2016. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

          Libyan forces advance against ISIL in its main base of Sirte

          WorldAugust 02, 2016
          Libyan demonstrators protest against French military intervention in the country at Martyrs Square in Tripoli onJuly 22, 2016. Ismail Zitouny/Reuters

          French support of rival general threatens Libya’s UN-backed government

          WorldJuly 23, 2016
          Jaballa Matar was an 18-year-old student at the Teachers’ College of Cyrenaica in Benghazi and the co-editor of its literary journal, The Scholar, when this photo was taken in 1957. He was taken from the family's Cairo apartment in the 1990s and has not been heard of since. Courtesy Hisham Matar.

          Book review: Hisham Matar’s The Return tells tale of a son’s search for a missing father in Libya

          July 12, 2016
          Libya's prime minister-designate Fayez Al Sarraj from the UN-backed Government of the National Accord has been trying to gain the support of both rival administrations in Libya to no avail. Mahmud Turkia/AFP

          Tripoli U-turn leaves Libya and hopes of peace in chaos

          WorldApril 07, 2016
          Contradicting an announcement that his so-called National Salvation Government was ready to step aside, Tripoli’s unrecognised prime minister Khalifa Ghweil on Wednesday urged his ministers not to stand down. Mahmud Turkia/AFP

          Tripoli authority reneges on ceding power to Libyan unity government

          WorldApril 07, 2016
          Supporters of the unity government shout slogans during a demonstration at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli this month. Hani Amara / Reuters

          Libya needs to unite to create a better future

          OpinionApril 06, 2016
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