Tag: Libya
TV station mourns death of Gaddafi’s son Khamis in Libya
A television station based in Syria that supports Muammar Gaddafi confirmed on Monday that the deposed Libyan leader’s son Khamis had died in fighting...
Libya government says its flag flies over Bani Walid
Libyan interim government forces said Monday they had raised the country's new flag over Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of pro-Muammar Gaddafi...
Libya leaders mop up after deadly clashes in capital
Libya's new leadership on Saturday pressed a campaign to clear the capital of armed loyalists of Moamer Gaddafi after fierce gunbattles killed three people...
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 Moamer Gaddafi loyalists in the desert town of Bani Walid,...
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...
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...
NATO allies debate end to Libya air war
NATO allies debated on Thursday how quickly to end the bombing campaign in Libya as they reviewed progress in their plans to withdraw combat...
After Libya, US can’t bail out NATO shortfalls: Panetta
The US defence chief warned NATO allies on Wednesday that they can no longer depend on the United States to make up for the...
NATO allies hold talks on Libyan, Afghan wars
NATO allies begin two days of talks Wednesday on the lessons drawn from six months of bombings in Libya and their goal of withdrawing...
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...
NATO: ‘10,000 lost missiles’ in Libya
At least 10,000 missiles are unaccounted for in Libya, a senior NATO official has admitted according to a German media report on Sunday, amid...
Sirte exodus as ICRC warns of medical emergency
Streams of civilians fled Muammar Gaddafi’s besieged home town of Sirte on Sunday as the international Red Cross warned of a medical emergency and...
Gaddafi loyalists force NTC fighters to retreat from Sirte
Ferocious attacks by Gaddafi diehards forced fighters of Libya’s new rulers to retreat from the ousted strongman’s birthplace Sirte, where a tank shell killed...
Libya postpones formation of new govt
Libya’s new rulers have decided to postpone formation of a transitional government until the entire country is liberated from forces loyal to ex-leader Moamer...
