France, Nov. 11 -- The youngest son of former Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi has been released from jail in Lebanon after nearly a decade in pre-trial detention for allegedly withholding information about a missing Lebanese cleric.

Hannibal Kadhafi, who was abducted in 2015 by militants in Syria where he was living with his family in exile after his father was killed in Libya in 2011, was released on Monday, Lebanon's National News Agency said.

He was taken into custody by Lebanon, which accused him of withholding information about the fate of Lebanese Shiite Imam Moussa el-Sadr, who disappeared during an official trip to Libya in 1978.

Lebanon blamed his disappearances on Muammar Kadhafi.

Hannibal Kadhafi, who is 49, was only two year...