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Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for over 40 years—transforming it into one of Africa’s richest nations while ruling with an iron fist. In this documentary, we explore: His rise from the desert to power The 1969 coup that changed Libya forever His revolutionary ideas and the Green Book His global conflicts and accusations of terrorism The Arab Spring uprising that ended …

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the longtime former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed in Libya. Ahmed Khalifa, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent in the North African country, said on Tuesday that Gaddafi is believed to have been shot and killed in the western Libyan city of Zintan, where he was based for the past decade. The 53-year-old’s …

Survey of nations with anti-homosexuality laws This article about Libya is one of a series of short articles on LGBTQ rights advocacy and abuses in nations with anti-LGBTQ laws. They are based on Outright International’s country overviews, which track each nation’s record on LGBTQ rights. In a small way, those overviews fill the gap that the Trump administration created when …