Unemployment: 30% (2004 est.) Other Facts Libya has proven oil reserves estimated at 48.4 billion barrels, the most in Africa. Colonel Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya from 1969 to 2011. In the 1970s and ...

(AP) – Libyans went to the polls Saturday in the country’s first free national election since the toppling of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi last year. Voters are electing a 200-member assembly ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: An occasional look at political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don't tell the full story WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has mangled a heaping helping of facts ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be less than meets the eye to President Barack Obama's statements Monday night that NATO is taking over from the U.S. in Libya and that U.S. action is limited to defending ...

(AP) – Facts about Libya’s Saturday election for a 200-member General National Congress, the first nationwide vote since the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi last year: _Eligible voters: 3.3 million.

DERNA, Libya — Libyan authorities have opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city as rescue teams searched for bodies on Saturday, nearly a ...

(Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi marks the 30th anniversary of his rule of the masses Jamahiriyah system on Friday. Here are some key facts on Gaddafi: * Gaddafi was born in 1942 in the Sirte ...

CAIRO (AP) — Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna on Tuesday, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed ...

Here's some background information about Libya, an oil-rich country in North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea and Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Chad, Niger and Sudan. GDP (purchasing power parity): ...