With the real army now almost symbolic, a murky network of paramilitaries, tribal leaders and foreign mercenaries are keeping Col Muammar Gaddafi in power in the face of mass protests.

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome, August 30, 2010. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP Nicolas Sarkozy and three former French ministers are among the defendants who have been on trial since Monday ...

Ex-French president stands trial over alleged campaign funding by Gaddafi France’s former president ... by the government of then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, who served as president ...

Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy went on trial January 6 for allegedly accepting some €50 million from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to fund his successful 2007 presidential bid .

The trial centers on whether the former French president received money from the then Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to finance the campaign that brought him to the Élysée in 2007, with him and ...

The former president stands accused of having, starting in 2005, entered into a "corruption pact" with Muammar Gaddafi, to facilitate the Libyan dictator's return to the international stage in ...

Ex-French president stands trial over alleged campaign funding by Gaddafi France’s former president ... by the government of late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. The so-called “Libyan case ...