North Africa

UK Supreme Court hears Libya rendition claim

The UK Supreme Court began hearings in the case of Libyan Islamist leader Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who claims the British government assisted in his 2004 rendition by US forces.

North Africa

Meanwhile in, um, Benghazi…

Missiles and mortar rounds were fired into a crowd of anti-Islamist demonstrators in central Benghazi, killing six and injuring many more.

North Africa

ISIS complains about jihadist rivals in Libya

The latest edition of the English-language ISIS magazine Dabiq includes a tirade against Qaeda-aligned forces in Libya, amid an internecine war of jihadist factions.

North Africa

Libya court sentences Qaddafi son to death

Saif al-Islam Qaddafi was sentenced to death in absentia by a court controlled by the Tripoli-based government, while he is held by a militia loyal to the rival Tobruk-based government.