The Libyan News Agency (Arabic: وكالة الأنباء الليبية), also known as LANA (Arabic: وال), is the official state news agency of the State of Libya.
It was founded in 1964 as the Libyan News Agency by a royal decree, amended in 1970 after the 1969 coup d'état and fall of the Kingdom of Libya and changed its name to Al-Jamaherya News Agency (JANA) (Arabic: وكالة الجماهيرية للأنباء (أوج)).
It was taken off the air during the Battle of Tripoli in August 2011, as rebel forces overran the capital.
[3] The Libyan News Agency (LANA) had a number of agreements with Arab, African and international news agencies.
It had over 300 staff and 10 overseas bureaus in London, Rome, Paris, Valletta, Tunis, Cairo, Rabat and Damascus.