Libya has launched its first exploration bid round in 17 years as part of a strategy to boost oil production by more than 50% ...

In much of Western Europe, the documentation of colonial history, including territorial and socio-economic ambitions, the ...

The historian Moshe Sharon demonstrated in 2002 that the detailed descriptions of the battles of the Islamic conquests ...

General Haftar, in alliance with the House of Representatives, controls most of Libya with the province of Cyrenaica (whose capital is Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya) and its leading ...

Reported movements of new Axis troops in the Balkans and German airmen in lower Italy hinted at a big offensive if & when Rommel plows through Cyrenaica. King Farouk couldn’t shoot the British ...

“Epigraphic sources indicate that at least since the 1st century BCE, representatives of the Libyan elite, who assimilated quickly, were granted citizenship in the Greek cities of Cyrenaic ...

Wavell’s Thirty Thousand might sound like the title of a play about an inheritance or lottery prize, but nothing could be ...

Berca, Cyrenaica. c. November 1944. RAAF blue battle dress was recently issued to RAAF airmen in the Mediterranean theatre. Here 54105 Leading Aircraftman (LAC) V. R. Dove of Melbourne, Vic, is fitted ...

Note Topographical map of the area around the town of El Abiar (al Abyar), 50 km east of Benghazi, in northeastern Libya. Shows populated places, roads and tracks, railway, occasional camping grounds, ...