Libya news

Without Western help, Arab democracy won't happen, says Con Coughlin

Four foreigners suspected of carrying out Christian missionary activities have been arrested in the Libyan city of Benghazi.

Award-winning British photojournalist Tim Hetherington admitted he had pushed his luck just hours before he was killed by mortar fire in Libya.

A cache of British guns and a Foreign Office vehicle were lost when extremists overran the US consulate in Benghazi, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

A former policeman who promised WPc Yvonne Fletcher he would track down her killer as she lay dying hopes to meet the former Libyan spy chief accused of involvement in her shooting.

Speaking in Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron says Britain should work with other countries for a more "stable, secure and democratic world".

Prime Minister David Cameron repeatedly ducked the question of whether he would cut the defence budget in a round of television interviews in Tripoli today.

British police are to fly to Libya for the first time to bring the people behind the Lockerbie bombing to justice, David Cameron has announced.

Prime Minister David Cameron visits officers at a police training centre during an unannounced trip to Libya.

Prime Minister flies into Tripoli in defiance of the deteriorating security situation.

British embassy in Tripoli says it is aware of reports of a “potential threat” against it, days after the Foreign Office urged British nationals to leave Benghazi.

Libyan officials expressed their "astonishment" after Britons and all other westerners were told to leave the city of Benghazi due to fears of an "imminent" terror threat in the wake of the Algerian hostage siege.

Britons and all other westerners were told to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday after diplomats received warning of an "imminent" terror threat in the wake of the Algerian hostage siege.

Rising militancy after the Arab Spring has increased terror alerts in the region. The Telegraph's Middle East correspondent Richard Spencer reports on latest threat from Benghazi.

Britons have been urged by the Government to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi in response to a "specific and imminent threat" against westerners, but Libyans express "astonishment".

Hillary Clinton gave an angry and emotional defence of her handling of last year's attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi on Wednesday, while warning of the need for a long-term US effort to address the rise of al-Qaeda in North Africa.

Hillary Clinton said the Arab Spring "shattered" security in North Africa, pointing to instability in Mali and Algeria, as she was finally grilled on the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

British war photographer Tim Hetherington, who died covering fighting in Libya in 2011, is celebrated at the Sundance Film Festival.

The armed forces of France and Britain are woefully ill-prepared for the new age of self-sufficiency, says Con Coughlin

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam has appeared in a court for the first time since his capture more than a year ago, according to Libyan officials.