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• McFeatters: Romney offers unrealistic advice

  ethnic groups and rival rebel militias and the new government is straining to exert its authority over the country, but otherwise Libya has dropped off the American radar screen and completely off the list of Republican talking points.Now Mitt Romney , freshly 5/30/12 Read more »

• Libyan PM lays wreath at London embassy siege site

  Libya's then-ruler Col. Moammar Gadhafi when an unidentified person sprayed the crowd with bullets, killing her and wounding 10 Libyan demonstrators."The Fletcher case is a case that is close to my heart personally," el-Keib said on Thursday when he met Prime   Read more »

• Tunisia to extradite ex-Libyan prime minister

  international organizations including Human Rights Watch have spoken out against the extradition because of the perceived risks involved.Al-Mahmoudi was the last head of government under former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi , who was killed last year.   Read more »

• NATO officials: No plan to intervene in Syria

  Bashar Assad's regime so it abides by a peace plan brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan .Last year, NATO conducted air strikes in Libya that helped topple strongman Moammar Gadhafi .But Daalder said Syria was not discussed at Sunday's NATO meeting.The Assad   Read more »

• Lockerbie families still seek answers from Libya

  from the Libyan government. Some relatives attended al-Megrahi's trial in the Netherlands. When he was released to Libya from a Scottish prison in 2009 on humanitarian grounds -- he was supposedly close to death -- they were outraged, especially after al-Megrahi   Read more »

Around the web

• Rwanda/Chad: Amavubi in Final Warm-Up Match

  with Algeria's Desert Foxes in the first round of the 2014 Brazil World Cup. Having lost the last two international matches against Libya (2-0) and Tunisia (5-1), Amavubi will be gunning for a morale boosting victory ahead of a hectic month of June in which 5:45 AM from AllAfrica.com Read more »

• Libya state seizes Turkish assets in the country

  authorities have seized the assets of 338 names, including Turkish companies and individuals, and frozen all transactions, daily Hürriyet reported. The move is a reaction of the country’s old governing bodies ahead of their upcoming elections and may simply 3:08 AM from Hurriet Daily News Read more »

• For Obama and Romney, Syria is no-win situation

  For Obama, military engagement with Syria may not be feasible from either a policy and political perspective. Syria, unlike Libya, has greater defense capabilities, and administration officials doubt a bombing campaign could be accomplished quickly and relatively 2:53 AM from San Luis Obispo Tribune Read more »

• 'India declined to sell nuclear technology to Iran, Iraq and Libya'

  Delhi: India declined to sell nuclear technology to Iran, Iraq and Libya in the 1980s in spite of being offered "huge" sums of money, said a leading defence journal. According to a report in the current issue of India Strategic (www.indiastrategic.in), all 12:21 AM from MSN India Read more »

• Why We Should Stay Out of Syria

  American casualties. That prospect is a big deterrent, and it ought to be. One reason Obama got little pushback at home on Libya was that we didn't lose a single soldier. Syria would be different -- more like the invasion of Afghanistan. We might prevail, 12:09 AM from Real Clear Politics Read more »