Holed up in Zinten, southwest of Tripoli, he embodied a controversial option in response to Libya's collapse, 15 years after the 2011 revolution. Libyan prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they had opened an investigation into the assassination.

The eldest surviving son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, has been killed, according to his lawyer Khaled el-Zaydi, media...

The 53-year-old, who was once widely seen as the second most powerful person in Libya, was killed on Tuesday according to Libyan media.