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Libya

December 2025

  • An actor performs at the reopening ceremony of the National Museum of Libya in Tripoli.

    Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens

    It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for some

November 2025

  • Industrial chimney-like buildings against blue sky

    State-sanctioned fuel smuggling cost Libya $20bn over three years – report

  • A Libyan coastguard ship arriving at a naval base in Tripoli carrying rescued people.

    Civil rescue groups in Mediterranean cut ties with Libyan coastguard

  • Lynsey Addario poses with her camera.

    Love & War: From frontlines to family life. Pulitzer-winning conflict photographer Lynsey Addario on the five stories that defined her career

  • Osama Almasri Najim

    Libyan general accused of crimes against humanity arrested in Tripoli

October 2025

  • Nicolas Sarkozy, pictured with his wife, Carla Bruni, on his way to present himself at La Santé prison.

    The Guardian view on Sarkozy’s first day in prison: no citizen is above the law

  • A Riyadh comedy festival sign in Boulevard City on 6 October 2025.

    Defence of Riyadh comedy fest is deeply naive

September 2025

  • Nicolas Sarkozy

    Investigation into Nicolas Sarkozy not due to ‘hatred’, his prosecutor says

  • Nicolas Sarkozy looking serious and weary with his wife in the background

    Nicolas Sarkozy’s lawyers will try to ensure time in prison is ‘as short as possible’

  • Nicolas Sarkozy, next to his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy

    Sarkozy says he will ‘sleep in jail but with head held high’ after conviction

  • The Paris criminal court found the former French president guilty of receiving millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

    'I am innocent': Nicolas Sarkozy given five-year prison sentence after Libya trial – video

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  • Paris court to rule on Nicolas Sarkozy corruption charge

  • Videos appear to show people smuggling by state-linked Libyan militia in Mediterranean

August 2025

  • A Sudanese man stands in profile with a black jacket on.

    How we survive
    At 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my family

    Mohanad was a medical student in Sudan, but he had to leave in secret, hiding in a vegetable truck, until he reached Libya, where he was kidnapped repeatedly. That was only the start of his perilous journey

July 2025

  • Migrants who arrived from Libya on the ship Messinian Spire queue for processing at Lavrio, Greece, on 10 July 2025.

    Libya is ready to work with European governments to stem the migrant flow

    Letter: The UN-backed government of national unity is working to ensure the rule of law in Libya and could tackle traffickers at source, writes Walid Ellafi

June 2025

  • a man in a suit gestures as he speaks

    Netanyahu speaks of regime change in Iran; what he means is regime destruction

  • A row of airline check-in staff photographed from one end as they deal with passengers

    Venezuela says being in US is ‘great risk’ as countries respond to Trump travel ban

May 2025

  • The arrest of Ahmed Ebid

    UK-based people smuggler jailed for 25 years over Mediterranean crossings

    Ahmed Ebid, 42, helped bring nearly 3,800 people from Libya to Italy, some of whom made it to the UK
  • Armed men stand near a military vehicle at a road junction

    Six killed in Tripoli clashes after killing of militia leader

    Abdel Ghani al-Kikli, known as Gheniwa, had recently been involved in disputes with rival armed groups
  • a detention center with a guard and cars parked outside

    Immigrants set for Libya deportation sat on tarmac for hours, attorney says

    Any Trump administration efforts to send non-Libyans to the north African country would violate a prior court order
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