Libya's national assembly picked former opposition leader Mohammad Yousuf Maqrif as its president as the North African country's newly elected congress began its rule.

Libyans vote for a national assembly on Saturday, the first election since Muammar Gaddafi's ouster, after a string of acts of sabotage that have stoked tensions in the east of the country.

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Tunisia extradited deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's former prime minister on Sunday, said officials in Tripoli, making him the first senior official to be returned for trial under Libya's trans

Tribesmen and politicians in Libya's oil-rich east have polarised public opinion, raised fears that the country might break apart and prompted some of his sharpest statements yet from the interim lead

Abdurrahim El-Keib, pitched from academic obscurity to head Libya's new government, set about selecting his cabinet on Tuesday, hoping to rally the disparate groups which toppled Muammar Gaddafi behin

Libyan revolutionary forces bulldozed the green walls surrounding Muammar Gaddafi’s main Tripoli compound on Sunday, saying it was time 'to tear down this symbol of tyranny'.

Gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have crossed the Libyan border from Algeria and attacked revolutionary forces in a town near the frontier, killing six people, officials said on Sunday.