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 ...

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 ...

1951 - Libya becomes independent under King Idris. 1956 - Development of Libya's oil reserves starts. 1969 - Muammar Gaddafi, deposes King Idris.

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 ...