In 2011, when the Libyan regime collapsed, Muammar Gaddafi's moneyman obtained French support to leave the country. Alexandre ...

Questioned at the Paris court about the exfiltration of Muammar Gaddafi's former chief of staff, Bashir Saleh, in 2011, Nicolas Sarkozy insisted he knew nothing.

During World War II, as Allies and Axis forces clashed in North Africa, Charles de Gaulle’s government-in-exile Free France had already taken a keen interest in Libya. “In 1942, Libya was central to ...

PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy vigorously denounced a “plot” he said was staged by “liars and crooks” on Thursday at a Paris trial over the alleged illegal financing of ...

France’s highest court ... investigative judges were listening to wiretapped phone conversations during the Libya inquiry. Sarkozy’s latest trial is scheduled to run until April 10, with ...

The charges were widely denounced abroad as false. The day after the release, during Sarkozy’s visit to Tripoli, France and Libya signed wide-ranging cooperation agreements in areas such as ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courthouse for his trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar ...

Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger ... As anti-migrant sentiment rises across Europe, from France to Germany to Hungary, the citizens of sub-Saharan Africa trying to reach the continent ...

France’s highest court ... investigative judges were listening to wiretapped phone conversations during the Libya inquiry. In February last year, an appeals court in Paris found Sarkozy guilty ...