UN intervention in Libya, so why not in Syria?
Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
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Are Syrians paying the price for Libyans’ freedom given that one year on, it seems unlikely that such international intervention will be contemplated again.
Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib bows and lays a wreath of white roses at the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead outside the country’s London embassy in 1984.
The intrigue swirling around Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s former oil minister has followed him to Austria, where his body was found in the River Danube on Sunday. Police say he drowned.
There are calls for a return to democratic rule in Mali after two weeks of chaos in which the government was toppled by soldiers and key northern towns – including Timbuktu – captured by separatists.
Two British journalists detained in Libya and accused of being spies were reporting on atrocities meted out against black people by the same forces that arrested them.
The international community learned a lot of lessons from Libya, and there are regrets. Lindsey Hilsum is in Moscow on the first anniversary of the revolution.
Thousands of people are being illegally jailed and abused by Libya’s ex-rebels, a UN report says. Channel 4 News speaks to a Ghanaian woman who has seen friends detained or die trying to flee Libya.
The arrest of Muammar Gaddafi’s son and heir apparent Saif al-Islam in the southern desert is a chance for the Zintan fighters to redeem themselves, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says it will investigate allegations of crimes committed by Nato forces as well as by the rebels and Gaddafi regime.
Lindsey Hilsum witnesses scenes more in keeping with a funfair than Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square as families turn out to celebrate the death of the despotic Muammar Gaddafi
As the NTC claims that the conflict in Libya is drawing to a conclusion, Channel 4 News understands that fighting continues in major cities previously said to have been captured.
The photographer behind the Libyan guitar hero image tells Channel 4 News the story behind the shot.
The Gaddafi regime may not be the only casualty of events over the past six months. Africa’s most powerful nations may have been compromised by their dealings with Libya under the discredited colonel.
The US says scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert into Niger, a claim denied by the country’s interior minister.
Libya’s rebel commanders may have to resort to an assault to take the Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid after forces loyal to the Colonel remained defiant.