Libya

In late October, 22 Libyans, who were wounded during the fighting to oust Moammar Gadhafi, were flown by the U.S. State Department with funds from Libya’s Transitional Council to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts.

Author Hisham Matar is returning to Libya for the first time in 30 years. In part, he’s hoping to find his father, a dissident who was jailed under Moammar Gadhafi.

They won the war to oust the dictator, but now the former rebels face enormous challenges of rebuilding the country, disarming the militias, and returning the oil industry to its previous levels of productivity.

Moammar Gadhafi, who ruled Libya with a dictatorial grip for 42 years until he was ousted by his own people in an uprising that turned into a bloody civil war, was killed Thursday.

The small Arab emirate of Qatar has been playing an outsize role in the Arab Spring rebellions across the Middle East leading to a perception that “all roads” lead there.

Journalist Sebastian Junger was supposed to be in Libya, covering the conflict there with photojournalist Tim Hetherington last month. A personal matter kept him home, when Hetherington and another photographer, Chris Hondros, were killed in a battle in Misrata.

Clare Gillis is a freelance reporter who was captured with several other journalists while reporting on the intense fighting outside of the key oil town of Brega, Libya, earlier this month. We speak with Gillis’ father Robert Gillis, who is waiting for news of his daughter’s whereabouts.

The foreign ministers from France and the UK say NATO must do more to destroy Moammar Gadhafi’s forces in Libya. Despite continuing NATO air strikes, Libya’s rebels continue to take big hits.

Rebel fighters are claiming that NATO airstrikes blasted their forces today in what would be the second accidental NATO strike against rebels in a week.

The consulting firm, Monitor Group, says that its earlier multimillion dollar contract with Libya was aimed at reforming the country. But critics contend that Monitor acted as Gadhafi’s PR spin machine.