Feed: LIBYA NEWS

Moammar Gadhafi, is expected to begin in a few weeks, according to reports by the country's National Transitional Council .

Headlines flash by from Tokyo, Tripoli, Washington and Wall Street and the mouth begs the mind for mini-reality checks for the sake of intellectual honesty and integrity, or just plain sanity.

Several dozens of Syrian protesters stormed the Russian embassy in Libyan capital of Tripoli on Sunday, a day after Russia and China had blocked the UN resolution on Syrian crisis, RIA Novosti reported.

Libya has put 41 loyalists of dead dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial in the first legal proceedings launched against members of the former regime which was ousted after a bloody conflict.

It's been almost a year since Benghazi launched its uprising against former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi and three months since he was killed, but there is a growing sense of frustration in eastern Libya with the National Transitional Council.

A work team of China's Ministry of Commerce arrived here Saturday night to discuss with Libyan authorities on protecting assets of Chinese companies and its participation in the North African country's post-war reconstruction.

Tunisia has started the procedure for withdrawing its recognition of the Syrian leadership under President Bashar al-Assad and for expelling the Syrian ambassador, the Tunisian president said on Saturday.

Demonstrators have stormed seven Syrian embassies in Australia, Europe and the Middle East over the reported killing of than 200 people by Syrian forces in the city of Homs.

Libyan Sufis staged a joyous parade through the heart of Tripoli on Saturday to mark the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, defying radical Salafi Muslims pressuring them to scrap the centuries-old tradition.

The events of the Arab Spring disrupted Italy's centuries-old relationship with Libya, its neighbour across the Mediterranean, but - now the dust has settled - both sides are keen to restore a spirit of co-operation. The links between Italy and its former North African territory go back not only to the brief 36 years of colonial rule at the ... (more)

Libyan rebels who entered Tripoli from three sides last week have taken hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners in the fighting and are holding them throughout the capital.

Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the late Libyan dictator, has officially petitioned the International Criminal Court to investigate the circumstances under which her father Col.

Mr Omar Brebesh was detained on 19 January after being called in for questioning by a militia in Tripoli.

Darnah is known to be one of the most religiously conservative cities in Libya; a place from which "eighty percent of the Libyans who were sent to Iraq to fight against the American invasion, since 2003, were freedom fighters from Darnah," as we were told by one of the local "thuwar" . During the 42 years of Gaddafi's regime, Darnah was one of the ... (more)

It helped the U.S. Coast Guard in its mission to deliver emergency fuel to iced-in residents in Nome, Alaska last month after the community was pounded by a monster storm.

Its predecessor, the Libyan People's Bureau in nearby St James Square, made global headlines in 1984 when an unidentified staffer opened fire on protestors outside and killed policewoman Yvonne Fletcher.

Portland, Ore., resident Jamal Tarhuni, 55, on an aid trip to Libya in 2011. Tarhuni was prevented from flying back to the United States at the end of his third and most recent visit working with Medical Teams International.

Children from the Scout Movement march to mark 55 years of the founding of the Movement in Libya February 2, 2012.

As explosions reverberated from the hills near Gharyan, a group met in a college auditorium to hear how one party wants to ensure democracy takes root in Libya.

In this undated photo Saadi Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches a military exercise by the elite military unit.