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 ...

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 ...

[caption id="attachment_29783" align="alignright" width="150"] US Secretary of State John Kerry[/caption] US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended Washingtons recent military operations in Libya and Somalia for targeting terrorists. "We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable ...