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Several people are shown in a street throwing items at a tank and other armored vehicles.
Conflict & Justice
Riots in Lebanon as West calls for quick Cabinet formation
Migrants wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 sit at a pier as Italian police officers stand by.
Migration
Some migrants crossing the Mediterranean say they prefer death to being returned
A large crowd of people are shown with many carrying the Libyan flag in a blurred motion photograph.
Global Politics
Libyans mark 2011 uprising with eyes on interim government
A police officer is shown walking on a grassy meadow with the wreckage of a large white aircraft in the background.
Justice
Justice Dept. charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion
A devil cartoon sits on shoulder of cartoon image of a president with Arabic script.
Global Cartoons
No joke! How two cartoonists spurred revolution during the Arab uprisings.
A compiliation of images from the Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East
Top of The World
Looking back at a historic time in the Middle East and North Africa
A crowd of people celebrate with flashes of red, black and green flags waving in the air.
Conflict
A poem penned during Libya’s 2011 uprising continues to inspire hope
Nazeer Mohammed shows a photo of his 1 1/2-year-old son on the boat to Cyprus.
Displacement
Lebanese take to the sea — risking their lives to reach Europe
Libyan boys check a damaged car after a shell fell on a residential area at Hadba al-Badri district, in Tripoli, Libya, Jan. 28, 2020.
COVID-19
Libyans are caught between coronavirus and conflict 
Khalifa Haftar and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, both wearing suits, are shown shaking hands.
Conflict & Justice
Libyan rivals, cajoled by Putin and Erdoğan, hold indirect Moscow peace talks
A man at a podium with groups of seated people around him
Global Politics
Is Turkey seeking a neo-Ottoman Empire?
A birds-eye-view of protests in Lebanon.
How Lebanon’s ‘WhatsApp tax’ unleashed a flood of anger
Wounded migrants lie on hospital beds after an air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in Tajoura, in Tripoli Central Hospital, Libya, July 3, 2019.
Migration
EU ‘complicity’ led to migrant deaths in Libyan airstrike, MSF says
A man holds a poster of eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar
Conflict & Justice
Libyan warlord took a twisted path to Tripoli
Gadhafi’s son accused of war crimes, mass killing in Libya
A man buys U.S. dollars in a currency exchange in Benghazi, Libya.
Business
Even a local bank teller can’t be trusted in today’s Libya
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi attending a hearing at the beginning of his trial in 2014. Here he’s seen in a courtroom in Zintan, linked via video to the actual trial in the capital, Tripoli.
Justice
Muammar Gaddafi’s son is sentenced to death in Libya
A view of damage after a bomb exploded at the gate of the Moroccan embassy in Tripoli on April 13, 2015.
Conflict
Violence in Tripoli is a reminder of the 2012 attack in Benghazi
Men in orange jumpsuits believed to be Egyptian Christians were held captive by the Islamic State and murdered in Libya.
Conflict
ISIS spreads its tentacles to North Africa — and threatens to reach beyond
Maya and Nancy Yamout, sisters who have spent the last two years interviewing accused militants in Roumieh prison.
Justice
These two sisters are trying to understand why people join groups like ISIS — by meeting militants in prison
Fresh martyr portraits painted on a side street in Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood. Clashes last month in the economically deprived neighborhood left at least 11 soldiers, 8 civilians and 22 militants dead.
Conflict
Healing this neighborhood would go a long way toward ending the insurgency
A young girl plays on the beach in Tripoli, Libya, where many people have turned to the waterfront to try and find relief from power cuts and political chaos.
Conflict
How Libyans beat the heat — and the turmoil in their country
George makes about a hundred frappuccinos a day for the guests on board a Greek ferry docked in Tobruk, Libya.
Lifestyle
A Greek ferry is home to members of Libya’s parliament and, more importantly, the best frappuccinos in town
Members of armed revolutionaries stage a protest in front of the Libyan Justice Ministry in Tripoli on April 30, 2013.
Conflict
Toyota’s most loyal customers may be Libyan militias
A terminal at Tripoli's airport is in shambles after a series of clashes between rival Libyan militias.
Conflict
Tripoli’s airport has become ground zero for military clashes in Libya
Displaced persons in Tawergha, Libya.
Health
Can smartphone videos help heal post-revolutionary Libyans suffering from PTSD?
The passenger terminal at Tripoli's international airport after recent attacks.
Conflict
Three years after its civil war, Libya is on the brink of another
Salwa Bugaighis
Global Politics
The assassination of a human rights leader sends a shockwave through Libya
Libyans are conducting their owns raids against Islamist militants and many aren't pleased with a recent US commando raid to apprehend a prominent jihadi.
Conflict & Justice
Here’s why this week’s US commando raid in Benghazi has angered so many Libyans
Protests in Derna
Arts, Culture & Media
Game of Thrones is an amazing way to understand what’s happening in Libya
The soldiers arrive at the military airport in Tripoli on Tuesday morning.
Conflict & Justice
These new Libyan recruits are hopeful about their country’s future
The soldiers arrive at the military airport in Tripoli on Tuesday morning.
Conflict & Justice
These new Libyan recruits are hopeful about their country’s future
Global Scan
Would you believe there’s a movement to preserve the sport known as machete fencing?
Conflict & Justice
These Libyan refugees feel trapped in Tunisia, and there’s not much they can do about it
Armed men aim their weapons from a vehicle as smoke rises in the background near the General National Congress in Tripoli May 18, 2014. Heavily armed gunmen stormed into Libya's parliament on Sunday after attacking the building with anti-aircraft weapons
Conflict & Justice
Libya’s recent rise in violence has the US preparing to evacuate its embassy there
Libyan congress
Conflict & Justice
This Libyan businessman paints a bleak picture of life in Libya now
Libyan congress
Conflict & Justice
This Libyan businessman paints a bleak picture of life in Libya now
DeAndre Rice (Number 5, with extended arms) scored 47 points in a recent game. He's helped his team, Al Ittihad Tripoli, with the championship this year.
Sports
It’s no March Madness, but former American basketball players are making it big — in Libya
DeAndre Rice (Number 5, with extended arms) scored 47 points in a recent game. He's helped his team, Al Ittihad Tripoli, with the championship this year.
Sports
It’s no March Madness, but former American basketball players are making it big — in Libya
Bokha
Lifestyle & Belief
Libyans risk poisoning for a sip of illegal hooch in their dry nation
The classic Cinnabon roll.
Lifestyle & Belief
Looking for the cool place to hang out in Tripoli? Try Cinnabon
IDP camp near Tripoli
Conflict & Justice
Gaddafi supporters face a tough future in the new Libya
Libya chemical weapons
Conflict & Justice
The chemical weapons have been destroyed, not in Syria, but in Libya
Libyans protest against the armed militias
Conflict & Justice
Libyans have yet to find peace, two years after Gaddafi
Libya's Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan, during a news conference after he was released by kidnappers, Thursday. Many Libyans are frustrated with the militias who compete for power in Libya, says Abigail Hauslohner of the Washington Post, and Zeidan's inabilit
Conflict & Justice
Libya’s prime minister was kidnapped, released, and no one is sure why
Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was abducted by milita gunmen and was released after few hours on Thursday.
Global Politics
Who’s in charge in the new Middle East and North Africa?
Senior al Qaeda figure Abu Anas al-Libi
Global Politics
Should the US be able to pursue terrorists wherever they are found?
Protesters burn a replica of the US flag during a demonstration against the capture of Nazih al-Ragye, in Benghazi October 7, 2013.
Conflict & Justice
Two unconnected raids in Africa with one mission – capturing terror suspects
Conflict & Justice
US forces go after leaders of al-Qaeda and al-Shabab in Africa
Arts, Culture & Media
U.S. Extends Closure of Some Embassies & Diplomatic Posts
In losing Ambassador Stevens, U.S. loses an ace in Middle East
U.S. officials indicate al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for deadly Libya consulate attack
Libya’s crackdown on illegal immigrants poses problems for that country’s economic recovery
Kidnappings reported as Lebanese strain under Syrian refugee load
Arts, Culture & Media
BBC reporter who stayed in Libya through civil war releases new book
Environment
Hillary Clinton makes social media waves by sending her own Text From Hillary
Libya’s revolutionary fighters turn to Jordan for medical treatment
VIDEO: U.S shutters embassy in Syria as diplomatic efforts crumble
Tripoli’s zoo still looking for help to keep its animals fed
Syrian Army defectors find safe haven, community across border in Lebanon