Elections for a General National Congress were held in Libya on 7 July 2012, having been postponed from 19 June. Once elected, the General National Congress will appoint a Prime Minister and Cabinet. The GNC was originally to be charged with appointing a Constituent Assembly t... Explore this topic

Mahmoud Jibril el-Warfally, also transcribed Jabril or Jebril or Gebril, (born 28 May 1952) is a Libyan politician who served as the interim Prime Minister of Libya for seven and a half months during the Libyan civil war, chairing the executive board of the National Transition... Explore this topic

Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. With an area of almost 1.8 mill... Explore this topic

The National Forces Alliance is a political alliance in Libya. The alliance was created in February 2012. It includes 58 political organizations, 236 NGOs, and more than 280 independents. The alliance is of predominantly liberal tendency. It calls for "moderate Islam" and a "d... Explore this topic

The Justice and Construction Party or Justice and Development Party is the Muslim Brotherhood's political party in Libya. It was officially founded on 3 March 2012 in Tripoli. The party advocates Islamism. Mohamed Sowan of Misrata heads the party, while Mohamed Gaair is its sp... Explore this topic

Islamism is a set of ideologies holding that "Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life". Islamism is a controversial neologism, and definitions of it sometimes vary. Leading Islamist thinkers emphasize the implementation of Sharia; of pan-Islamic politi... Explore this topic

The Society of the Muslim Brothers is the Arab world's most influential and one of the largest Islamic movements, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states. Founded in Egypt in 1928 as a Pan-Islamic, religious, political, and social movement by t... Explore this topic

The politics of Libya are currently in a phase of transition. As a result of the collapse of the Gaddafi government in August 2011 due to the 2011 Libyan civil war, Libya is under de facto administration of the National Transitional Council (NTC). The NTC pledged to organize d... Explore this topic

The last election in Libya was that of the General People's Congress under the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, held in March 2010. Currently, the National Transitional Council is in the process of organizing Libya's recovery from the Libyan civil war and has pledged to organize democr... Explore this topic

The Libyan civil war, also referred to as the Libyan revolution was a 2011 armed conflict in the North African state of Libya, fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and those seeking to oust his government. The war was preceded by protests in Benghazi beginnin... Explore this topic