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Gaddafi had announced his candidacy on November 14 and looked like one of the front-runners in the contest, scheduled for December 24. On Wednesday, however, the election commission ruled him ineligible. It is a preliminary decision and can be appealed in court. A military prosecutor in Tripoli had urged the …

The 49-year-old was registered as a candidate in the December 24 presidential election, the divided country’s election authority has confirmed. Footage showing Gaddafi Jr. submitting the paperwork at an election center in the southwestern city of Sabha on Sunday was published by the local media. He was wearing a traditional …

There was never really an ‘Arab Spring’ in Libya the way there was in Egypt or Tunisia. Protests were much smaller, and as time went on to show, the biggest players turned out to be extremist groups and foreign actors, each trying to get a slice of the country. NATO’s …

“Saadi Muammar Gaddafi has been freed from prison,” a justice ministry source told AFP. “The chief prosecutor asked, several months ago, for the execution of the decision relating to Saadi Gaddafi as soon as all the required conditions had been satisfied.” Gaddafi, 48, was cleared of charges of “murder, deception, …

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has begun to reach out to Western and other diplomats as he seeks to re-enter public life, the Times reported. Once viewed as his father’s successor, he is preparing to stand in Libya’s December 24 presidential contest. Speaking to the paper via telephone, he said he was …

Information was shared by a former adviser to the Libyan leader. Former adviser to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi Bashir Saleh said that the President was killed as a result of the conspiracy, and not just because of the revolution. About Bashir said in an interview with RT. “This was …

In Libya, the group “a Battalion of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq” released from captivity of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the former Libyan dictator, where he spent 5 years. In Libya, the group “a Battalion of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq” was released after five years captivity of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the most …