A newspaper editor has been shot dead in the centre of Benghazi, Libya, according to medics.

Meftah Bouzid, editor of the weekly newspaper Burniq and prominent critic of armed groups, was gunned down on Monday.

A friend said that Bouzid’s …

In Hay El-Islami, a poor neighbourhood in western Tripoli, two groups of children are facing off. The first is led by a 10-year-old whipping a strip of plastic. About 30 metres down the dusty, unpaved street, their rivals wait with …

Benghazi police this week raided the infamous Jenehein market and arrested a large number of drug and weapons dealers.

“Weapons and narcotic pills were seized during the raid, which ended without casualties in the ranks of the joint force, which …

Yasmin Najjar in Tunis and Mawassi Lahcen in Casablanca contributed to this report for Magharebia

These are dangerous times to be in Libya.

Days after kidnapping Tunisian diplomat al-Aroussi Kontassi in Tripoli, Libya terrorists released a video showing another Tunisian …

A member of al-Saiqa Special Forces survived an assassination attempt on Monday (April 21st) in Benghazi, the latest in an endless stream of attacks on security forces in Libya’s second city.

The soldier was driving in the city’s Laithi district …

An unknown jihadist group in Libya released a video on Monday showing a Tunisian embassy worker pleading for his life.

Mohamed Benchikh is shown crying during the five-minute video, as he calls on Tunisia’s president to help rescue him from …

With Libya’s capital of culture facing daily bombings and assassinations, artists are left in a perilous position.

To get a handle on the situation, Magharebia met in Benghazi with Ahmed Bouakeula al-Obeidi, a 42-year-old actor, playwright and songwriter. He began …

Libya’s sovereign wealth fund has filed a bribery case against French bank Socieacuteteacute Geacuteneacuterale, adding to its $1 billion lawsuit against Goldman Sachs.

Tripoli: The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) has filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against Socieacuteteacute Geacuteneacuterale (SocGen), claiming …

An Official With the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch has expressed concern about the lack of access to legal counsel for the imprisoned sons of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and members of his former regime.

This comes as the …