... in the air. But that was all in the future when we arrived the previous November. For two days, our handlers stalled. They took us to see clinics where Libyans were receiving free medical treatment, to construction sites where snazzy new apartments were being built for Libyans by their Leader. We were...

.... With the price of oil only barely stabilizing after its sharp decline, the Libyan state is both turbulent and cash-strapped. Add to that the decline in air and sea trade due to closure of airfields and seaports, and the medical situation in Libya is on the verge of crisis. Wafaa Khafafa, head of the HIV drug...

.... Last year’s NATO intervention in Libya provides an imperfect template. Broader international participation, better military coordination with anti-Gaddafi Libyans and a more robust United Nations resolution all would have helped. But Libya 2011 was everything Iraq 2003 was not. The revolt against...

... of EU human rights legislation, which guarantees anyone who lands on European soil the right to request asylum. Yet for the far right, checks on immigration are the best way to safeguard “Italianness.” Local Libyan militias now generate billions by running a massive trade in human smuggling. Even...

...David A. Andelman In 1995, while based in Paris for CBS News, I was dispatched urgently down to Chad in central Africa where there was some evidence that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was contemplating a new incursion across the Sahara into Chad. French troops, only recently withdrawn from...

... nations to understand the dynamics in vast regions of the world that have never known such concepts. In 1984, with rumors running wild that Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was about to launch a southerly invasion into Chad, I paid a visit to Chad’s capital, Ndjamena. It was a tense period. Chad was hardly...

..., there was panic across a stretch of Africa. Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi was contemplating an invasion of its neighbor to the south—Chad, a country straddling the desert and jungle. Libyan forces had a clear and direct shot across the Sahara and into the heart of Chad. The French, who for a century or more...

..., are obliged to join prayers five times a day. Smoking is banned, and traditional Islamic dress is mandatory. Towering above the complex is the 10,000-person capacity Muammar Gaddafi Mosque—built with funding from the Libyan government’s international missionary arm. Just across the expressway, a similar...

... by sovereign investors long before sovereign wealth funds became fashionable. Libyan state entities famously invested in Fiat and Juventus back in the 1970s. Indeed, family solidarity—grandpa sharing his pension with his unemployed grandson—provides the only lifeline to hundreds of thousands of workers...

... ally in the region, to help him overthrow President Goukouni Oued-deye, who was seen as a friend of the Libyan leader. In 1982, Habré seized the presidency, imposing one-party rule and suppressing ethnic groups such as the Sara and the Hedjarai in the south and the Zaghawa in the northeast. Habré...

... to MINUSMA (the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali), leading to the capture or killing of jihadists at large in the desert. Like most of Mali’s nomadic leaders, he blames the crisis on foreigners—Algerians, Mauritanians, Libyans—and with some justification, for it was the arming and training of Tuaregs...

... parliamentary elections, the last nationwide election held in the country. Chávez has also cultivated political allies beyond Latin America who share his anti-American rhetoric. In 2000, Chávez became the first head of state to meet Iraqi President Saddam Hussein since the Gulf War. During the Libyan...

... minister Silvio Berlusconi signed over to then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi beneath a desert tent in Benghazi—was judged by Time magazine to be “an unprecedented act of contrition by a former European colonial power.” Recently, in October 2012, France’s new Socialist president, Francois Hollande...

... 39 is due in large part to the all-pervasive in­ nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan to the dissemi­ security in Iraq as a result of the resistance nation of nuclear know-how. Notwithstand­ by insurgent forces there. It is reasonable ing the Libyan decision to renounce to assume that minus...

... litical forum he wrote: “If you thought that to an apartment where a Libyan and a Saudi you finished us you are mistaken. Get ready were staying. They urged him to drive a car for a new thing and a bigger explosion but bomb, but he refused to become a “suici­ in a more strategic place with many...