“Injustice turns the oppressed into heroes” -- Libyans still remember these fateful words by iconic resistance leader Omar al-Mukhtar (1862-1931), who spent the last 20 years of his life ...

Sharif will star as Libyan revolutionary leader Omar Mukhtar in a $50 million pic scripted and financed by Libyan prexy Moammar Gaddafi. “Years of Torment,” or “Dhulm” in Arabic ...

It is natural that Libyans and Arabs more broadly, should invoke the image of the Libyan revolutionary leader Omar Mukhtar when rising in protest. Mukhtar, who led the Libyan fight against ...

However, his troops are frequently defeated by the national leader Omar Mukhtar and his army of Bedouins. But the Butcher of Ethiopia and Libya uses a dirty war against the natives, slaughtering ...

Then as now, it was the region around Benghazi that was the main rebel domain, under the leadership of Omar al-Mukhtar. Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini eventually crushed the uprising ...

Were Mohammed Omar al-Mukhtar not 90 years old and rather unsteady on his feet he would be fighting Colonel Muammar Gaddafi on the rebels’ front line, he declares. There is an even greater ...