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The Homeland Party [2] or Libyan National Party [3] (also styled Alwattan Party, Arabic: حزب الوطن Ħizb al-Waṭan or Ħizb el-Waṭan) is a conservative Islamist political party in Libya, founded in November 2011, [4] after the Libyan Civil War and the overthrow of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. It is endorsed and led by Ali al-Sallabi ...
The Zintan Brigades are under the leadership of the Zintan Revolutionaries' Military Council and currently consist of: The Lightning Bolt ( Sawaiq) Brigade. The Qaaqaa Brigade. The Civic Brigade (لواء المدني) The Airport Security Battalion (for Tripoli International Airport) was linked to the Zintan Brigades, but its current status is ...
Al Watan ( Arabic: الوطن, lit. 'The Homeland') [2] is a daily newspaper in Saudi Arabia. The chairman of the newspaper is Bandar bin Khalid. [3] Al Watan' s main publishing centre was at Abha in the south of the country. [4] The paper was based in the Asir province, the south-west of Saudi Arabia. [5] However, later its headquarters was ...
Succeeded by. Moussa Koussa. Personal details. Born. ( 1949-11-22) 22 November 1949 (age 74) Libya. Abdel Rahman Shalgam ( Arabic: عبد الرحمن شلقم; born 22 January 1949) is a Libyan politician. He was Foreign Minister of Libya from 2000 to 2009.
From 1912 to 1927, the territory of Libya was known as Italian North Africa. From 1927 to 1934, the territory was split into two colonies, Italian Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitania, run by Italian governors. Some 150,000 Italians settled in Libya, constituting roughly 20% of the total population.
The Islamist "Libya Dawn" has been described as "an uneasy coalition" identified as "terrorists" by the elected parliament in Tobruk including "former al-Qaeda jihadists" who fought against Gaddafi in the 1990s, members of Libya's branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and a "network of conservative merchants" from Misrata, whose fighters make up ...
The Libyan National Democratic Front ( Arabic: الجبهة الليبية الوطنية الديمقراطية) was a Libyan political opposition organization. The organization was founded in the United States in August 1980, [1] [2] emerging out of the Democratic Libya Committee. [3] The founding meeting elected a Central Committee and ...
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