The deputy head of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) resigned on Sunday after angry protests, as the ruling body faced its first serious challenge since the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi1.

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The Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi possessed mustard gas shells which it had not declared as a member of the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW said on Friday.

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More than 10,000 shoulder-mounted missiles still unaccounted for after the toppling of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi may pose a threat to 2012 London Olympics.

Security experts have warned that th

The United States said on Friday it was lifting 'most' US sanctions against Libya to recognize the country's political transition, but kept assets of former strongman Muammar Gaddafi's family frozen.

The UN Security Council and United States on Friday lifted sanctions on Libya's central bank in a bid to ease a cash crunch in a post-Gaddafi era, diplomats said.

The UN council ended a freeze on the

Mexico said on Wednesday it has broken up an international plot to smuggle the son of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, al-Saadi Gaddafi, and his family into Mexico under false names and with fals

Some 7,000 people, many of them foreigners, are being held in Libyan detention centres controlled by ‘revolutionary brigade’ militias, according to a new UN report.

Women and children are among detai

Former rebels who helped to topple Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi and a human rights lawyer whose arrest sparked the uprising were handed key posts in a new government unveiled on Tuesday.

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Slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son Khamis, whose death was announced several times since the Libyan conflict erupted, is reportedly still alive, a defence ministry official said.

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British spy agency MI6 played a key role in the capture of Saif al-Islam, son of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, a media report said.

The top-secret 25 million pounds mission, dubbed Operatio