The most prominent son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, has been killed, sources close to the family, his lawyer Khaled el-Zaydi and Libyan media said on Tuesday (3 February).
The office of Libya's attorney general on Wednesday (4 February) said investigators and forensic doctors examined the body of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi on Tuesday (3 February) and determined that he died from gunshot wounds.
The attorney general’s office said it was working to identify suspects and take the necessary steps to bring a criminal case.
Once widely seen as his father’s heir apparent, Saif al-Islam played a prominent role in shaping policy before 2011, despite holding no formal government position.
He was involved in high-profile negotiations, including those that led Libya to abandon its nuclear weapons programme and prompted the lifting of international sanctions, with some viewing him as a reformist figure at the time.
His public profile faded after the 2011 uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi’s rule. In 2015, a Libyan court sentenced him to death in absentia for his role in suppressing peaceful protests during the revolution.
Saif al-Islam has also been provisionally charged by the International Criminal Court with alleged crimes against humanity, a case his lawyers failed to dismiss.
Although he had long denied seeking to inherit power, saying leadership was “not a farm to inherit,” he registered as a presidential candidate in 2021. The election was later postponed indefinitely amid political deadlock.
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Libya signed a series of multilateral agreements with international and regional partners, including Türkiye, aimed at boosting energy production, accelerating investment and deepening cooperation in the energy sector on Saturday.
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Türkiye on Sunday denied reports that a Turkish Airlines passenger flight diverted from Libya due to fears of retaliation following a Libyan military delegation plane crash near Ankara.
Libya’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad, has died in a plane crash shortly after departing Türkiye’s capital, Ankara, the prime minister of Libya’s UN-recognised government has said.
Talks with the U.S. should be pursued to secure national interests as long as "threats and unreasonable expectations" are avoided, President Masoud Pezeshkian posted on X on Tuesday (3 February).
Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío has denied that Havana and Washington have entered formal negotiations, countering recent assertions by U.S. President Donald Trump, while saying the island is open to dialogue under certain conditions.
Mexico said it will stop sending oil to Cuba as U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on the Caribbean nation.
Iranian media outlets have backtracked on claims President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered a return to nuclear talks with the United States, fuelling fresh uncertainty over the state of diplomacy between the two rivals.
Web Summit Qatar 2026 opened in Doha on Sunday, drawing tens of thousands of founders, investors, policymakers and technology leaders to what organisers describe as one of the region’s largest digital economy gatherings.
A second group of Palestinians receiving medical treatment arrived in Egypt from Gaza via the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday (3 February).
Washington has accepted Tehran’s request to relocate planned nuclear talks, with negotiations now expected to take place in Oman on Friday (6 Februrary), Axios reported.
Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health has launched the country’s first polio vaccination campaign of 2026, saying around 7.3 million children under the age of five are expected to receive oral drops during the round.
Türkiye’s defence and aerospace exports surged by 44 percent year on year in January 2026, hitting a record monthly high of more than $555 million as overseas demand for Turkish-built military technology continued to grow, the Turkish Defence Industries Secretariat said on Monday (2 February).
Kazakhstan sharply increased oil shipments to Europe in January, exporting 310,000 tonnes to Germany and sending a further 106,000 tonnes via the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline.
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