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.

A new unified Libya emerged in 1951, but the king's lack of interest in the day-to-day affairs of the state fostered a divide between the east and west, said St. John.

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 ...

Libya’s Crown Prince Has A Plan To Attract Investors And A Unique Leadership Story ... Oil makes men dream," said King Idris I upon hearing of the massive oil discovery in his kingdom.

Idris Elba jokes about getting 'kicked out' of Robert De Niro's office in his 'I Am An Actor' Monologue at the 2024 SAG Awards. Michael Cera, Colman Domingo and Hannah Waddingham also took part in ...

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 ...

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 recently opened up about working with such a murderer’s row of celebrities, and it sounds like he was shook. The first true glimpse of F1 that the general public received arrived back in ...

As a kingdom, Libya was democratic to the core. This makes Libya unique. Idris did not assent to concessions on his royal prerogative. Indeed, Idris never considered himself to be a monarch with ...