Libya’s fuel-smuggling economy has evolved into a state-embedded, $20-billion parallel system sustaining both eastern and ...

Libya’s central bank said Tuesday that representatives from the country’s two legislative bodies signed an agreement on a ...

Italy-Libya Roundtable at Libya Energy & Economic Summit (LEES) 2026 to Drive Strategic Energy and Infrastructure Investment ...

The massive diversion of subsidized petroleum products is fueling instability around Libya's borders, particularly with Sudan ...

WASHINGTON — If Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi falls, his nation's ability to return to normal will depend in no small part on who controls its production of oil, which is synonymous with the Libyan ...

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Towering above the Libyan capital’s coastline, the sleek silver Marriott Hotel opened three months ago as the latest symbol of the North African nation’s oil-fueled investment boom.

The headquarters of the National Oil Corporation in Tripoli are gleaming, the floors marble, the offices decked out with black leather chairs and fake flowers. It seems far from the fighting going on ...

Small businesses are prospering in Libya's major cities even as the economy at large is being throttled because of security problems and industrial action which has shrunk lifeline oil revenues. Its ...

Libya's migrant smuggling economy, fuelled by state collapse and political fragmentation, has evolved into a brutal, highly ...