While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Video ...

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This divide-and-conquer strategy pitted towns and ethnic and tribal groups against each other all over Libya. The revolution turned those divisions into battle lines. Overnight, towns like ...

Hit by the ongoing conflict, the Libyan economy continued to suffer from recession in 2016. It is estimated that GDP lost half of its pre-revolution level. Budget revenues and exports proceeds reached ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Libyan authorities have clamped down on rap ... In February 2011, MC Swat released "Hadhee Thowra" (which translates to "This is Revolution") in which he encouraged people to take to the streets ...

That is easily dismissed as a hallucinogenic fantasy now. It would seem less so if the US and Britain were arming the Libyan opposition. The Arab revolution will be made by Arabs, or it won't be a ...

After the fall of Moammar Gadhafi, the commercial metropolis of Misrata with its militias became Libya's most powerful city. Twelve years after the revolution, its inhabitants must now find a new ...

What Happened in Libya Revolution's Final Moments? Fresh evidence has emerged that fighters battling for control of Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte were responsible for numerous extrajudicial killings ...