Libyan envoy addresses violence

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Moammar Gaddafi's cousin Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam, wanted in Libya for his role in the regime of the slain Libyan strongman, Egyptian officials said. Qaddaf al-Dam surrendered hours after his bodyguards ...

Egyptian authorities extradited two Libyan officials from the regime of deposed dictator Moammar Gaddafi back to their home country on Tuesday, an airport official says. It is Egypt's first high-profile extradition in years. The official says the ...

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya's parliament has passed a law that bans government officials who held senior positions under Moammar Gaddafi from holding high-level posts. The bill, dubbed the "Political Isolation Law", could effectively dismiss many of ...

ZINTAN, Libya — Seif Al-Islam, son of Libya's late dictator Moammar Gaddafi, appeared in court on Thursday charged with illegally trying to communicate with the outside world in June last year, an AFP journalist reported. The man once assumed to ...

A cousin and one-time top aid of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi will face trial in Egypt on charges of attempted murder. Prosecutor Hamdi Mansour ordered on Sunday that Ahmed Qaddaf Al Dam be tried for attempted murder, resisting arrest and ...

PARIS Paris prosecutors have begun investigating whether former President Nicolas Sarkozy's winning presidential campaign in 2007 may have received illegal funding from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Prosecutors' office spokeswoman Agnes ...

Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in Dakar, Senegal, Dec. 3, 1985. According to declassified FBI documents, a source had contacted the FBI saying Gadhafi had put out a contract to have President Ronald Reagan killed. (Joel Robine/AFP/) The ...

Pro-Muammar Gaddafi fighters shelled the rebel-controlled town of Misrata, killing at least 10 people on Friday. Gaddafi's men started attacking the western town once again on Thursday. It was the scene of a two-month siege earlier in the Libyan ...

Kenneth N. Waltz, a widely admired scholar of international relations who was best known to the broader public for his theory that, as far as nuclear weapons are concerned, more may be better, died May 12 at a hospital in New York City. He was 88.