Watch: Libya doctor calls for urgent flood rescue ... He told the BBC's Newshour programme that the dam collapse sounded "like an air strike". "The water now has stopped and what is left is ...

A major coastal road near the port has collapsed into the sea. Derna's population was around 200,000 before the storm hit Libya ... on the sea side of the dam bore the brunt of the flood as ...

Libya has been "blighted by years of chaos ... water rushed through and began building up behind the second dam which eventually collapsed as well. The United Nations Office for the Coordination ...

[AFP] Twelve people were convicted on Sunday in Libya's eastern city of ... over their management of "the country's dam facilities" at a time when the collapse of two dams near the port city ...

Like much of Libya's crumbling infrastructure ... 800 million cubic feet) of water, collapsed first. The deluge then broke Al Bilad, the second dam, which had a capacity of 1.5 million cubic ...

Libya has been divided between an internationally recognized Tripoli-based administration in the west -- to which Sur belongs -- and another in the flood-struck east. The first dam to collapse in ...

A Libyan court has sentenced 12 officials to between nine and 27 years in prison for their role in the collapse of two dams .

The tumultuous collapses of Iraq, Libya and Syria offer stark parallels ... This took place a day after the fall of Damascus following the collapse of the final military positions and the ...

Her memoir contains a sensitive account of that visit. She was most deeply impressed by the thoughtfulness and determination of Libya’s young pro-democracy activists. And many students asked her ...