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Time is running out for Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, even as the strongman’s forces laying siege to Misrata...

Moamer Gaddafi regime reacted angrily on Friday to a NATO-led decision to provide funding to the three-month-old rebellion against his rule in Libya, describing...

An international meeting on Libya agreed Thursday to set up a new fund to aid Libyan rebels, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

Moamer Gaddafi's government was mulling extending on Wednesday a deadline for rebels in Libya's third city Misrata to lay down their arms after the...

Switzerland has found 360 million Swiss francs ($415.8 million) of potentially illegal assets linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his circle stashed in...

The besieged Libyan rebel city of Misrata braced for a new bombardment by Moamer Gaddafi's forces on Tuesday as an ultimatum for its surrender...

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi launched a new armoured incursion into the besieged rebel city Misrata on Monday ahead of the funeral...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire and negotiations provided NATO “stop its planes”, but he refused to...

Libyan rebels on Saturday rejected Muammar Gaddafi's offer for a ceasefire and negotiations if NATO stopped its attacks, saying the time for compromise had...

Libya’s tribes on Wednesday urged Moamer Gaddafi to cede power, as rebels backed by NATO air strikes said they forced the strongman’s missiles out...

Fighting waned Tuesday in Misrata as rebels said they pushed Moamer Gaddafi ‘s troops out of the besieged city, but the Libyan leader stayed...

Britain and the United States plan to step up military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday, as the Libyan leader’s army presses its bloody...

NATO bombs destroyed Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's office in his immense Tripoli residence on Monday, while rebels pushed forward against the strongman's troops...

AJDABIYA - Libyan regime forces pounded rebels with heavy artillery west of Ajdabiya on Sunday, forcing hundreds of residents and some fighters to flee, as a refugee rescue operation in Misrata was underway.
"Gaddafi's forces approached the city, they bombed the western gate. The sound of the guns are coming closer, that's why many are leaving," said Omar Salim. Another civilian, 48-year-old Milud Ghait, appealed NATO to launch air strikes on the area.

AJDABIYAH - Rebels came under fire on the outskirts of Ajdabiyah on Sunday, hemming them in to their eastern outpost and denting their hopes of pushing west to try to end a stalemate in the Libyan war.
One witness said he saw around a dozen rockets land around the western entrance to town, which rebels wanted to use as a staging post to retake the oil port of Brega. Many fled the attack as loud explosions boomed across the town.
"There are still some guys out there at the

TRIPOLI - The leaders of Britain, France and the United States (US) said a Libyan future including Moammer Gaddafi was "unthinkable", as Russia charged Friday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was exceeding its UN mandate in the restive Arab nation.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama penned a joint article dismissing a Libyan future with Gaddafi as "unthinkable" and saying his staying on would