Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi is the only person who was convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988. In 2009, the Scottish government released him on compassionate grounds, saying that medical evidence showed he would die ...

Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage ...

TRIPOLI, Libya – Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the ...

There are conflicting reports about the killing of Lebanese citizen Sheikh Ahmad Abdel Wahid who was reportedly shot at a Lebanese army checkpoint in Kweikhat, Akkar as he was heading to the northern Lebanese town of Halba to participate in a rally.

BEIRUT: Sheikh Ahmad Abdel-Wahed, who was killed at a Lebanese Army checkpoint Sunday, was a prominent figure in local politics, and a philanthropist. Born in 1969 in the town of Bireh in Akkar, he received his primary education in Bireh’s public school ...

TRIPOLI, Libya — Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison ...

Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, backed by hardliners and liberals alike, may be Egypt’s next president. Dan Ephron speaks to him. He’s on the move again. Abdel Moneim Abou el-Fotouh has finished one interview in a suite at the Movenpick hotel ...

A total of 270 people were killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on Dec. 21, 1988 -- 259 on the plane and 11 on the ground at Lockerbie, Scotland. Among those killed in the Pan Am bombing were 35 Syracuse University students, one Colgate ...

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al Megrahi, convicted of the deadliest terrorist attack in British history and then released from prison on compassionate grounds, died of prostate cancer at his Libyan home Sunday. Megrahi was hospitalized in ...

A new Islamic party, Hizb al-Watan, is due to be launched in Libya this week. The party is founded by Abdel Hakim Belhaj who resigned from his post as military commander of Tripoli on May 15 to enter the political arena. Long time enemy of former Libyan ...