Lindsey Hilsum
The death sentences passed down on eight Gaddafi era officials, including the dictator’s son Saif al Islam, are unlikely to cause much outrage in Libya. In fact, they may be a cause for celebration.
Lindsey Hilsum
They perform dangerous turns in 4x4s on the sand dunes of Misrata. But what chance Libya’s young men will turn their testosterone to fight a new enemy, more dangerous than Gadaffi?
Lindsey Hilsum
Labour and the Tories say they’ll spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence, as a Nato commitment. Both are pledged to spend 0.7 per cent of GDP on foreign aid. Why? To what end?
Lindsey Hilsum
Better that at least some vestiges of previous civilisations be kept safe in the great museums of London, Berlin and New York, courtesy of the colonial looters of yesteryear.
Lindsey Hilsum
The debacle of Libyan soldiers accused of rape while on a training course near Cambridge symbolises the chaos of both post-revolutionary Libya and British policy.
Lindsey Hilsum
18-year-old Libyan civil society activist Tawfik Bensaud was killed on Friday, probably by Islamists. His friends are now struggling to keep faith in the democratic state they dream of.
Lindsey Hilsum
Libya’s rival factions are called Dawn and Dignity. But fighting means it has little chance of achieving the new dawn or the life of dignity the 2011 revolution promised.
The death toll from clashes between renegade military forces and Islamist militants in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi rises to 43, with more than 100 injured, the government says.
French President Francois Hollande denounces a car bomb attack on his country’s embassy in Libya as an attack not only on France, but on all countries fighting terrorism.
Channel 4 looks at the timeline of events leading from the Lockerbie bombing to the death of Abdul Basset al-Megrahi
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum recalls a conversation with the man at the centre of Libyan rendition claims on how close the CIA and MI6 became with Libyan intelligence.
The story of Libya’s revolution demanded to be told, says Lindsey Hilsum, who has written Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution.
Libyan officials confirm Abdullah al-Senussi, Colonel Gaddafi’s head of secret police, has been arrested in West Africa after fleeing Tripoli last year.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son and one-time heir apparent of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will move to a prison in Tripoli within weeks, and face trial in Libya.
Fighters loyal to Libya’s overthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi took control of a town south east of the capital on Monday, flying their green flags in defiance of the country’s fragile new government.