Libya, a country of a few backward cities and oasis-speckled sand wilderness about three times the size of Texas, is the first nation brought into being solely by the United Nations.

Idris I, King of the Libyans “On 7 October 1951, the President of the National Constituent Assembly, who is Grand Mufti of Tripoli, promulgated the Constitution of the United Kingdom of Libya ‘in the ...

Imprisoned in Libya for a year in 1976, he took his young family and left for the U.K. with a bounty of millions of dollars on his head. He must have known that Gaddafi's regime would one day get ...

As if it were not enough that a plague of locusts threatened some 300,000 of his subjects with starvation, Libya’s 65-year-old King Idris himself was plagued with family troubles. In the first ...

Idris died in Cairo in 1983. Libya was occupied for decades by various nations, and it was not until 1947 that both Italy and France relinquished claims to parts of the country.

Fyfe Robertson reported from the mountains of Cyrenaica in Libya on a British woman who looked after the royal Cyrenaican bees of the King of Libya. King Idris employed Miss Olive Brittan as the ...