TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A Libyan al-Qaeda suspect who was captured earlier this month in a US special forces raid in Tripoli has appeared in a federal court in New York for a second time. The defence lawyer for Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, better known as Abu Anas al-Liby, said that it would take several months to examine hundreds of thousands of documents ...

A Libyan man, who was kidnapped from Tripoli by US Special Forces, has been taken to the United States to "face trial." Anas al-Libi, who was captured on October 5 in an operation denounced by the Libyan government, is expected to appear in court on Tuesday in New York. Anas al-Libi was transferred to law enforcement custody this weekend and was ...

US defense lawyers are demanding to be allowed to represent a Libyan man who was abducted by US military forces, arguing there is no legal basis for holing him offshore on a navy vessel. TheTelegraphreported on Wednesday that it obtained a letter from the New York public defenders office which demanded its team be appointed to represent Abu Anas al-...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was seized by gunmen in the capital Tripoli before dawn Thursday, something that is linked to a raid by US special forces over the weekend that snatched a Libyan al-Qaeda suspect from the streets of the capital. Zeidan's abduction reflected the weakness of Libya's government, which is virtually ...

The US military has deployed a Marine force of 200 troops to an Italian base neighboring Libya in wake of the recent American raid in the North African nation to kidnap alleged al-Qaeda operative Abu Anas al-Libi. A US military official has confirmed the repositioning of 200 heavily armed Marines from an American base in Spain to Sigonella naval base ...

Libya has summoned the United States envoy over the abduction of a Libyan citizen by American military forces in Tripoli. The Libyan government called in the US ambassador to Libya, Deborah Jones, over the kidnapping of Abu Anas al-Libi, also known as Nazih al-Ragye, by US forces, the Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. "Justice Minister Salah ...

People have taken to the streets in the Libyan city of Benghazi to voice anger at the abduction of a Libyan man by US forces over his alleged role in the bombings of two US embassies. Abu Anas al-Libi, also known as Nazih al-Ragya, was kidnapped by US forces in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and was transferred out of the country on October 5. A ...