The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to ...

The fighting between forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi and rebels continues, with reports of battles centring mainly on the coastal strip between the rebel-held oil town of Ras Lanuf and the Gaddafi ...

1906 Mohammed in Misrata (see previous entry) tells BBC World Have Your Say the people who have been killing in his city are not Libyan, but mercenaries, and he says a number of them have been ...

AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels on the eastern front of Libya's civil war lost 11 men in the past 24 hours fighting to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at Brega on the ...

Protesters, including ex-rebels given the task to gaurd the country's major ports., have blockaded the country's main oil terminals at Zueitina, Ras Lanouf, and Al-Sedra in eastern Libya since July.

France said the rebels were in the process of taking over the town completely, but the Libyan government denied the claim. “Members of the revolutionary council saw some Gaddafi forces inside ...

President Putin’s fledgling Mediterranean flotilla may have to retreat to ports in Libya and Algeria or to the Baltic.

Anecdotal evidence from other Libyans in Manchester suggest others from the city have also joined the rebels. The city is believed to be home to the biggest community of Libyan ex-pats in the UK.