Libya's rival eastern and western legislative bodies have signed a US-mediated agreement to unify public spending across the ...

Revolutions are inherently chaotic, and their precise outcome is impossible to predict. Made up of a quick and inevitably violent succession of events, they result in radical and sweeping changes — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, ...

Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya until he was ousted by a NATO-backed intervention in 2011. The country has been in political turmoil since, with the military and government dividing rule. Gaddafi's son, ...

W ITH THE overrunning of Moammar Gadhafi’s compound in Tripoli, the Libyan rebels’ victory looks irreversible. There are pockets of pro-Gadhafi resistance elsewhere, notably around the tyrant’s home ...