Libya: An Islamist militia was driven out of the city of Benghazi early on Saturday in a surge of protest against the armed groups that control large parts of Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
A spokesman for Ansar al-Sharia said the group had evacuated its bases in Benghazi "to preserve security in the city".
In a dramatic sign of Libya's fragility, after sweeping through the base the crowd went on to attack a pro-government militia, believing them to be Islamists, triggering an armed response in which at least 11 people were killed and more than 60 wounded.
Ansar al-Sharia has been linked to the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last week in which the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans died, although the group denied involvement....
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08:59 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Misrata: The body of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is being taken to a location which is being kept secret for security reasons, a National Transitional Council official said on Thursday. Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said. "Gaddafi's body is with our unit in a car and we are taking...
06:50 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Washington: US officials on Thursday scrambled to check reports that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had died after being captured near his hometown of Sirte following months of civil war. Gaddafi was wounded in the head and legs as he tried to flee in a convoy that came under attack from NATO warplanes at dawn, a senior official with Libya's National Transitional Council told Reuters. A senior Obama administration official...
05:55 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Bani Walid: Libya's interim government said its forces seized the airport and fort in Sabha, one of the last strongholds of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi which also controls the main route south out of Libya. "Our forces are there in the airport and in the castle ... Our flags are flying there," Ahmed Bani, a military spokesman for the National Transitional Council (NTC), told a news conference in Tripoli...
05:27 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Bani Walid: Libyan revolutionary forces faced fierce resistance as they streamed into one of the remaining bastions of support for Muammar Gaddafi on Friday, while the Turkish Prime Minister met with the country's new rulers in the capital Tripoli. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit came a day after the French and British leaders traveled to Libya as the international community rallies around the interim government's efforts to establish legitimacy...
05:14 PM, Sep 16, 2011
London: Fallen Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had virtually built an underground city under the capital Tripoli, with a vast maze of well hidden reinforced tunnels fanning out for miles in different directions. "There is a Tripoli above ground and a Tripoli underground", a rebel commander exclaimed as his men stumbled upon what had long been rumoured an elaborate secret underground network. Outsiders who had never seen the tunnels were shocked...
02:24 PM, Aug 26, 2011
Tripoli: Explosions and gunfire rocked Tripoli through the night as opponents of Muammar Gaddafi rose up in the capital, declaring a final push to topple the Libyan leader after a six-month war reached the city's outskirts. A defiant Gaddafi said an assault by "rats" had been repelled. "Those rats... were attacked by the masses tonight and we eliminated them," Gaddafi said in an audio message broadcast over state television early...
11:16 AM, Aug 21, 2011
Benghazi: The head of the Libyan rebel's armed forces and two of his aides were killed by gunmen on Thursday, the head of the rebel leadership said. The death of Abdel-Fattah Younis was announced at a press conference in the de facto rebel capital, Benghazi, by the head of the rebels' National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil. He told reporters that rebel security had arrested the head of the group behind...
02:31 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Zlitan: The Libyan government showed foreign journalists on Monday a destroyed flu clinic and food warehouses it said had been hit earlier in the day by NATO airstrikes, killing eight people. The attacks took place in the government-held town of Zlitan, 90 miles (140 kilometers) east of the capital Tripoli and not far from the country's front line where rebels are battling Moammar Gadhafi's forces. NATO denied, however, that it...
02:47 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Tripoli: Rebels in Libya's western mountains said they have advanced and are battling Muammar Gaddafi's forces in a strategic town southwest of the capital, ramping up pressure against government troops on a second front. The rebels' claim of an advance into the outskirts of the town of Bair al-Ghanam, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Tripoli, follows weeks of intense fighting in the Nafusa mountains in which opposition forces have...
01:06 PM, Jun 27, 2011
Washington: As part of efforts to tighten the noose around Muammar Gaddafis regime, the US has slapped sanctions against nine Libyan entities, including a Karachi-based company which is jointly owned by the governments of Libya and Pakistan. The US Treasury Department yesterday said that it had targetted three foreign Libyan-owned banks and identified six additional companies, including four foreign firms, subject to sanctions. The four foreign companies include Ghana Libya...
05:33 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Dafniyah: Libya's rebels have traded heavy artillery fire with Muammar Gaddafi's forces near the western city of Zlitan as they tried to take government-held territory east of the capital Tripoli. The city, 160 km (100 miles) from Tripoli, is the next major town on the Mediterranean coastal road to the capital from the rebel stronghold of Misrata. Capturing it would greatly advance the rebels' strategy of cutting off the capital...
09:30 AM, Jun 18, 2011
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11:43 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Tripoli: Waves of NATO aircraft hit Tripoli on Tuesday in the most sustained bombardment of the Libyan capital since Western forces began air strikes in March. By Tuesday afternoon, war planes were striking different parts of the city several times an hour, hour after hour, rattling windows and sending clouds of grey smoke into the sky, a Reuters correspondent in the centre of the city said. But Muammar Gaddafi vowed...
12:57 AM, Jun 08, 2011
Tripoli: Libya's top oil official became the latest leading figure to desert Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday, complaining of "unbearable" violence and adding political momentum to a revolt against the leader's long rule. In rebel-held eastern Libya, an explosion damaged a hotel used by rebels and foreigners in Benghazi, wounding one person, and police said rebel authorities believed the explosion might be linked to Gaddafi agents still operating in the east....
07:25 AM, Jun 02, 2011
Tripoli/Brussels: NATO's bombing campaign in Libya has crippled the government's ability to attack rebels fighting to topple Muammar Gaddafi and effectively forced the leader into hiding, the alliance said on Friday. NATO took command of a UN-authorised mission nearly two months ago to stop Gaddafi's forces attacking civilians, and Western governments including the United States, Britain and France are under pressure to show results. Ambassadors of the 28 NATO states...
07:48 AM, May 21, 2011
Tripoli: Libyan state TV showed footage of an apparently healthy Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in a Tripoli hotel on Wednesday, ending nearly two weeks of doubt over his fate since a NATO air strike killed his son. Gaddafi, who had not appeared in public since the April 30 strike on his Bab al-Aziziyah compound killed his youngest son and three of his grandchildren, appeared in his trademark brown robe, dark...
09:32 AM, May 12, 2011
Naples: NATO said on Tuesday it was unaware of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi being dead or alive and denied its air strikes on Tripoli were aimed to kill him. "All NATO targets are military targets, which means that the targets we've been hitting are command and control bunkers," NATO spokesman Claudio Gabellini told reporters, adding "and it happened also last night in Tripoli". "NATO is not targeting individuals," he...
08:06 AM, May 11, 2011
Tripoli: A NATO missile struck a house in Tripoli where Muammar Gaddafi and his wife were staying on Saturday, killing his youngest son and three grandchildren but missing the Libyan leader, a government spokesman said. The strike would be a significant blow to the morale of the regime, which is struggling to maintain its hold on the western half of the country despite weeks of NATO-led airstrikes. It came just...
06:55 AM, May 01, 2011
Tripoli: Defiant Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed on Saturday not to quit, but said he was ready for a "ceasefire and negotiations" as NATO bombed a key government complex in Tripoli while the Libyan regime stepped up the offensive in the besieged western city of Misurata. "I'm not leaving my country," 68-year old Gaddafi said in a speech on state television in the early hours on Saturday. He said "no...
08:33 PM, Apr 30, 2011
