Tag: Gaddafi

Gaddafi convoy posed no threat when attacked by NATO: Russia

A convoy carrying former Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi posed no threat to civilians when it was attacked by NATO jets, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...

Iran says NATO should quit after ‘welcome’ Gaddafi death

Iran on Friday hailed the killing of ousted Libyan dictator Muammer Gaddafi in the capture of his hometown Sirte and said it hoped his...

Barack Obama hails Gaddafi demise, warns Arab regimes

US President Barack Obama on Thursday said the death of Moamer Gaddafi ended a long, painful chapter for Libyans and warned “iron fist” regimes...

Gaddafi bites the dust

Col Gaddafi came to power through the sword, he ruled Libya by the sword and as history has always repeated, such men die by...

Gaddafi killed in bloody siege

Toppled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed on Thursday in a final assault by new regime forces on the last pocket of resistance in...

Fierce battle under way to crush last Gaddafi holdout

Anti-Gaddafi fighters launched a fresh assault on Wednesday against the ousted strongman’s remaining holdouts, now pinned into a small corner of his hometown Sirte....

Libyans rejoice as Gaddafi compound razed by armed men

Two bulldozers guarded by armed men started to demolish the walls around ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi’s former home in the Libyan capital Tripoli on...

NTC forces pound Gaddafi loyalists in Sirte

Forces from Libya’s new regime launched an intensive assault on two areas of fallen strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte Friday, bombarding his loyalists...

Gaddafi’s son still on the run

A senior military commander inside Sirte said on Thursday that Muammar Gaddafi’s son Mutassim remains on the run, denying an announcement by the political...

Gaddafi forces still resisting in two Sirte areas

Loyalists of Muammer Gaddafi were keeping up their dogged resistance in two parts of the fugitive strongman's hometown Sirte on Thursday, an AFP correspondent...

17 NTC fighters killed in Libya’s Bani Walid

Seventeen fighters of Libya's new regime were killed and 50 wounded in clashes with Muammer Gaddafi loyalists in the desert town of Bani Walid,...

New Libyan regime tightens grip on Gaddafi’s hometown

Forces of Libya’s new regime on Sunday tightened their stranglehold on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte, seizing its university and the Ouagadougou conference centre, an...

Libya forces struggle to take Gaddafi hometown

New regime forces have suffered heavy losses in the street-by-street battle for Muammer Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte as the deposed despot's loyalists put up...

Battle resumes for control of Gaddafi hometown

Forces loyal to Libya's interim government pounded Moamer Gaddafi's diehards in Sirte on Saturday as they resumed their battle for full control of the...

Gaddafi urges mass demonstrations

Deposed strongman Muammar Gaddafi called on Libyans to turn out in their millions to demonstrate against the country’s new rulers, as his forces launched...

Gaddafi hometown rocked by street fighting

Muammer Gaddafi's besieged hometown of Sirte was rocked by heavy street fighting on Friday, as the ex-leader called on Libyans to turn out in...

Libya eyes symbolic coup in Gaddafi birthplace

Fighting raged for Moamer Gaddafi's birthplace on Monday as Libya's new leaders eyed a symbolic victory in their battle to eradicate the last vestiges...