This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The bronze likeness of Muammar Qaddafi’s nemesis was lying on his back in a wooden crate shrouded in the darkness ...

In ancient times, Libya was the name by which North Africa was broadly known. And in the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament of the Bible, the area is the setting for the story of Noah’s Ark.

(JTA) — An abandoned and ancient synagogue in Libya is being turned into an Islamic religious center without permission, the World Organization of the Jews of Libya said. David Gerbi, a Libya ...

An estimated 20,000 people were killed on Sunday night when Storm Daniel tore through eastern Libya and caused flooding on a catastrophic scale. In the city of Derna, 100km away from ancient ...

Libya is big—a slab of sun the size of Italy ... when rainfall was abundant, and ancient channels testify that rivers ran in the center of the desert. Climate change has been like an on-off ...

That is how Egypt has viewed Libya since the brutal end of former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his regime in 2011. Libya has no properly functioning state institutions, no unified ...