![Anti-Gaddafi fighters from Benghazi engage in a firefight with snipers who are loyalists to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during a street fight in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, Libya, on October 19, 2011 [Mauricio Lima]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ML02.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
A photojournalist describes capturing some of the most memorable moments of the war in Libya.
Muammar Gaddafi
![Secretary-general expresses concern at the continuing threat of 'terrorism and violent extremism' in the Libyan region [Ayman al-Sahili/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-19T115254Z_2020938482_RC2B6K9LPGNF_RTRMADP_3_LIBYA-SECURITY.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Arab League also presses for a solution to threat posed by armed groups and militias as Libya strives for peace.
![French President Emmanuel Macron meets Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, who heads the UN-recognised government in Tripoli at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 8, 2019 [File: Reuters/Philippe Wojazer]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2019-05-08T111316Z_1573715238_RC183BE224C0_RTRMADP_3_LIBYA-SECURITY.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The EU’s incoherent policy on Libya has allowed Russia to gain a lot of ground just south of its shores.
![One of the hijackers of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 surrenders to the Maltese military on the runway at Malta International Airport [File: Darrin Zammit-Lupi/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2016-12-23T000000Z_2141721686_LR1ECCN1808SI_RTRMADP_3_LIBYA-AIRPLANE.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The Afriqiyah Airlines Airbus 320 was on an internal flight to Tripoli when hijacked in 2016 by supporters of Gaddafi.
![A vendor sells knives at a market before the Eid al-Adha celebrations, amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Misrata, Libya, which slipped into chaos after the NATO-backed overthrow of Gaddafi [File: Ayman Al-Sahili/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/c6c34900aff84289a435b217d4e0121c_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Libyan Investment Authority has missed out on $4.1bn in potential equity returns due to sanctions, its chief said.
How British and US secret services collaborated with the former Libyan regime to detain and torture dissidents.
![A man suspected of being a Gaddafi loyalist in a detention centre in Misrata, Libya [File: Manu Brabo/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/0722718f30e2427cb57d215dd7442967_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Activists collect evidence of systematic rape and torture in Libya, speaking to victims caught up in the state’s crisis.
Libyan MP and former FM Aly Abuzaakouk discusses Khalifa Haftar’s assault on Tripoli and the ongoing conflict in Libya.
A war economy, a divided nation, two central banks and debt piling up – how Libya’s wealth has pitted east against west.
![Libyans wave national flags as they gather in the capital Tripoli's Martyrs Square, to celebrate ahead of the eighth anniversary of the Libyan revolution [Mahmud Turkia/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/675e7ca6d2ad4b7ea69eb7502b401b5b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The country is riddled with political and military divisions since the uprising against its leader Muammar Gaddafi.
What led to Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall and the break-up of Libya?
The legacy of the life and death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Investigating allegations that the UK and US colluded with Gaddafi to hand over his opponents for detention and torture.
Ex-president has six months to appeal to have charges of illegal campaign financing by Libyan leader Gaddafi overturned.