To The Shores Of Tripoli: Remembering Libya Could those who witnessed the rise of Moammar Gadhafi have predicted the outcome of today? Former Libyan resident and author Matthew M. Aid gives his ...

In 2008, in Boumediene v.Bush, a five-justice majority of the U.S. Supreme Court declared that habeas corpus jurisdiction extended beyond the shores of the United States.This, it said, was a ...

With Muammar Qaddafi still at large, continued fighting in parts of Libya, and an uncertain future ahead for that country’s long-oppressed people, one hesitates to make too many categorical ...

"The Shores of Tripoli" ready for gameplay. For centuries, pirates and raiders from the Barbary states of Tripoli (today known as Libya), Algiers, Tunis and Morocco plundered foreign shipping in ...

The remains of Richard Somers — one of our nation’s greatest military heroes — are one step closer to returning to his Atlantic County home some 207 years after he and 12 other Navy ...

Sunday's rescue of the skipper of the Maersk Alabama, Richard Phillips, from Somali pirates brought home an old story. Pirates have been around since at least the days of the Roman Republic.

PIRATES OF BARBARY. Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean. By Adrian Tinniswood. 343 pp. Riverhead Books. $26.95.

Jefferson became President in early 1801, shortly after Yusuf Karamanli, the ruler of Tripoli, unwisely issued an ultimatum to the U.S.: If it did not pay him fresh tribute, he threatened, he ...

The Marines' Hymn, starting with "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli," permeates every birthday ball, held on or near Nov. 10 of each year.

The beach bums of Tripoli say that no matter who's in charge of Libya, they'll still be at the beach. NPR's Leila Fadel sends this postcard from Tripoli.

Surely there are worse PR gigs than flacking for the Libyan government, but I can't think of many. It's not that there's never good news emanating from the province of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, who ...