Many of Libya’s tribes pride themselves on their resistance to colonialism, not least Gaddafi’s own Werfelli and Gaddafa tribes. That Gaddafi chose to return to his tribal and ancestral lands ...

Tensions are running high. Many Tuareg nomad tribes, who roam the southern Sahara desert spanning the borders of Libya and its neighbours, backed Gaddafi late into the war. The Arab fighters of Zintan ...

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The fighting in the coastal city of Zawiya, about 47 kilometres (about 30 miles) west of the capital Tripoli, pitted gunmen loyal to the Shurafaa tribe against warlord Mohamed Kushlaf, according to ...

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