{"id":8706,"date":"2026-02-04T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:39:23","slug":"saif-al-islam-gaddafi-son-of-former-libyan-leader-killed-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=8706","title":{"rendered":"Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Son of Former Libyan Leader, Killed in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Libya (HRNW):<\/strong> <strong>Saif al-Islam Gaddafi<\/strong>, son of former Libyan leader <strong>Muammar Gaddafi<\/strong>, has been <strong>killed<\/strong>, confirmed by sources close to the Gaddafi family.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Saif al-Islam was <strong>shot by four assailants in a garden<\/strong>, after which the suspects <strong>fled the scene<\/strong>. Libya\u2019s official news agency, <strong>LANA<\/strong>, also confirmed his death, citing his advisor <strong>Abdullah Othman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had long been considered his father\u2019s <strong>political heir<\/strong> and had announced his intention to participate in the <strong>2021 presidential elections<\/strong>, which were subsequently <strong>indefinitely postponed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaddafi family stated that the incident occurred amid ongoing <strong>political and social instability<\/strong> in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libya (HRNW): Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed, confirmed by sources close to the Gaddafi family. According to reports, Saif al-Islam was shot by four assailants in a garden, after which the suspects fled the scene. Libya\u2019s official news agency, LANA, also confirmed his death, citing his advisor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}