Libya has played host to its second oil and gas discovery within a few weeks. Fresh from OMV finding up to 42 million barrels of resources in the onshore part of the Sirte basin last month, state-owned Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco) has now hit oil and gas with a well in the Ghadames basin.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Hannibal Gaddafi, youngest son of Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi, was released on Monday after almost a decade of detention without trial in Lebanon over the disappearance of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric,

If the UK government's promise to "smash the gangs" behind the people-smuggling trade is to be fulfilled, East Libya would be a good place to start.

CNN has revealed that the number of refugees in Libya exceeded 100,000 as of last October, according to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). According to the report, Sudanese nationals constitute the majority of refugees in the country,

Libya's Zallaf for Oil and Gas Co said on Wednesday it has exported its first oil shipment from the Chadar oil field in the Sirte Basin, southeast of Ajdabiya in eastern Libya. The subsidiary of Libya's National Oil Corporation did not disclose the destination of the shipment of more than 600,

The United Nations will soon decide whether to extend the mandate allowing inspections of ships suspected of violating the arms embargo on Libya.The UN Security Council is scheduled to vote on Novembe

France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed yesteday that the truth would win out after he was released from prison under judicial supervision ahead of

Libya's new unity government took office on Tuesday from two warring administrations that had ruled eastern and western regions, completing a smooth transition of power after a decade of violent chaos.