Europe had already been immersed in World War II for a year, and Mussolini had declared war in June 1940 ... led by General Italo Gariboldi (stationed in Tripolitania, northwestern Libya), and the ...

When World War II started, Africa was (save for certain exceptions) a tapestry of colonies. A third of the continent’s ...

Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books ...

Further reading: Liberation of Auschwitz: Truth of history When Italy entered World War II in June 1940, he was deployed to Libya ... had shifted dramatically. Mussolini had been overthrown ...

His victory over Mussolini in Libya freed up forces from the Commonwealth ... Metaxas was poisoned by the British under Churchill’s orders. The poisoning was carried out using the bacterium ...

The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign is ...

The former French president has been convicted before, but the charge that he took illegal campaign funding from the regime ...

French prosecutors have requested seven years in prison and a fine of 300,000 euros or around $325,000 for former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime and the increase in Russian Libya involvement may seem like unrelated phenomena. However, Russia’s shift towards Libya is a direct reaction to ...