With Dictator Mussolini to Libya last week on his first visit since 1926 traveled among other Italian Cabinet members Minister for Press Dino Alfieri, and every dispatch was thoroughly censored.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and interim Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh review the honor guard in Tripoli, Libya, May 7, 2024 (AP photo by Yousef Murad). As working summits ...

The hard-pressed Allies exchanged a few sharp jolts with him in northern Italy, Libya, Eritrea. The British clamped shut, at Gibraltar and Suez, the gates of their Mediterranean cage for Mussolini.

The notion of moderate Italian fascism is still a widely accepted narrative of Mussolini’s legacy, and the case of Libya remains absent even from recent books on forgotten genocide. Reclaiming ...

Libya’s current turmoil cannot be understood without examining its fragmented past: three distinct regions with separate identities, histories, and political trajectories that continue to fuel today’s ...

Mussolini’s Dream for Italy. ... Italian rule: 1911-1943; Libya was an Italian colony before the war. Germany landed troops there and tried to capture Egypt and the Suez Canal from Britain, ...