Libyan jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia on Tuesday (May 27th) lashed out at opponents, threatening to turn the country into a new Syria.

Commander has managed to rally influential bodies in offensive against post-Gaddafi government but is dogged by old CIA link

A renegade general who has launched an assault against Islamists in Benghazi warned Libya had become a “terrorist hub”, calling for a civilian presidential high council to form an emergency cabinet and organise legislative elections.

Libya continues to suffer from a chronic absence of security, with almost daily assassinations, bombings and kidnappings.

CNN’s Atika Shubert takes a look at General Khalifa Haftar, the renegade general behind the attack on Libyan parliament.

Libyan rebels, apparently loyal to a renegade army general, stormed parliament on Sunday. Fighting continued for hours, two people have been killed and 55 wounded in the capital Tripoli. Justice minister Saleh al-Mergani has called on those involved to lay down their weapons and start a dialogue. Al Jazeera’s Omar …

In Libya, the death toll continues to rise in an offensive launched by a retired army general against militants in the eastern city of Benghazi.

Libyan antiquities are falling prey to extremists.

NATO’s intervention was thus executed nearly flawlessly, yet appears to be a strategic mistake. In weighing the costs and benefits of the operation, one would naturally begin with the immediate danger that spurred NATO to act: the humanitarian concern that Qaddafi would have crushed the opposition to his regime in …

NATO’s intervention was thus executed nearly flawlessly, yet appears to be a strategic mistake. In weighing the costs and benefits of the operation, one would naturally begin with the immediate danger that spurred NATO to act: the humanitarian concern that Qaddafi would have crushed the opposition to his regime in …