Libya

Success always brings its own burdens. The Chinese economy has grown in real terms by around 8 or 9 per cent a year since...

Washington’s need for periodic scandal is almost biological. For legislators, it is the opportunity to strut on the national...

An apparent car bomb exploded outside a main hospital in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, leaving at least 15 people dead...

Mustafa Abdel Jalil was the guiding light of the Libyan uprising against Col Muammer Gaddafi, overseeing the country’s...

Cyber War Will Not Take Place, by Thomas Rid, Hurst, RRP£14.99, 256 pages In the early 20th century, the Italian general...

When Gregory Hicks appeared before Congress to testify on last year’s attack on the US consulate in Libya, he resembled...

At Misurata’s sombre war museum where walls are lined with hundreds of pictures of “martyrs”, Faraj al-Derelli, whose nephew...

Gazing at the container ships heading down the Bosphorus, Sani Sener reflects a little on the Turkish trading spirit. “We...

On the main road linking Ankara’s airport with the city, a small forest of high-rise apartment blocks has sprung up in the...

The Turks wasted no time. A day after Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron made their first triumphant visit to Tripoli after...

Egypt foreign reserves lost value at an accelerated rate last month, even as a cash injection from abroad raised the fund’s...

Tuesday's FT contained a wonderful obituary of Giulio Andreotti, a man who managed to be prime minister of Italy no fewer...

Libya’s interim parliament has passed a controversial law banning anyone who held a senior position under Col Muammer...

Novice north African governments are rediscovering a hard truth their predecessors learnt a generation ago about the nature...

President François Hollande this week published France’s long awaited strategic defence review, setting out what the French...

Militants armed with heavy weapons have attacked and laid siege to critical Libyan government institutions in an attempt to...

Huge placards proclaim “Yes to disarming”, “No to a state of militias” on the building housing the Tripoli offices of...

Libya is drawing up an oil law, which should be ready within months, that will allow the country to launch a licensing round...

When Col Muammer Gaddafi was ripped from his hidey-hole in Libya in late 2011, Abo Asam, a Kuwaiti online activist, tweeted...

A car bomb tore through France’s embassy in Tripoli, the capital of Libya, on Tuesday morning, the latest in a string of...

Some western governments, led by the British, are increasingly eager to give military assistance to anti-Assad forces in...

When Syria erupted in a civic uprising against tyranny just over two years ago, Bashar al-Assad, like fellow despots toppled...

Having rallied by about 8 per cent since last month mainly on expectations that the government would reach a deal with the...

Having rallied by about 8 per cent since last month mainly on expectations that the government would reach a deal with the...

The poet’s thick, bushy beard may look like those worn by the hardcore militiamen who roam Libya and the firebrand preachers...

Armed militias in Libya are not just a threat to security and the main challenge to the weak government in Tripoli, but they...

The departing chairman and chief executive of the Libyan Investment Authority has said he was about to appoint lawyers to...

Plain bad luck is usually low on the list of acceptable excuses when companies are forced to justify a slumping share price....

Two years after grassroots protesters toppled a trio of entrenched strongmen across north Africa, expectations that bloomed...

At least four members of the Libyan army have been arrested in connection with the rape and kidnapping of a group of UK...

Abloody hostage stand-off in Algeria, battles against Islamic insurgents in Mali, and kidnappings of western workers in...

Libya has agreed to supply its economically beleaguered neighbour Egypt with a million barrels of oil a month, part of an...

Libya is to give cash-strapped Egypt $2bn and speed up visas for thousands of labourers seeking to work in the oil-rich...

APR Energy, whose backers include the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said it was doubling its turbine...

Britain’s decision to implement a faster than expected drawdown of troops from Afghanistan this year has allowed George...

Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, a cousin and close aide of Muammer Gaddafi, the late Libyan dictator, was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday...

Will a debate on Syria hijack this seemingly uneventful EU summit? That is certainly the Anglo-French plan. Foreign...