Tripoli, Libya: NATO denied a Libyan government charge on Thursday that the alliance is intentionally using its airstrikes to assist rebel advances, saying it is sticking to its mandate to protect civilians. Wing Cmdr. Mike Bracken, an alliance spokesman in Naples, Italy, said NATO is "not involved in the ground battles," although he acknowledged the alliance is tracking the fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. Libya's Deputy...
03:03 AM, Jul 08, 2011
Misrata, Libya: Aref Abu Zeid used to be a heavy equipment engineer at the Libya Steel Company. Now he runs an 80-man team working 12 hours a day turning out rockets and weapons to fight Moammar Gaddafi's forces. In this rebel stronghold in western Libya, civilian engineers, mechanics and tradesmen are pumping out materiel to arm the uprising against Gaddafi's rule that has become a civil war. "None of us...
02:19 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Tripoli, Libya: Renewed diplomatic efforts to halt Libya's civil war appeared to be gaining momentum on Thursday as thunderous NATO airstrikes once again hammered Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold of Tripoli. Officials in the capital say they are open to international efforts that would bring an end to four months of fighting between forces loyal to the longtime leader and rebels who control the eastern third of the country along with pockets...
03:35 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Tripoli, Libya: The men labored in a sandy alley in the Libyan capital, trying to weld a rocket launcher to a jeep and brazenly talking about their goal: to battle Moammar Gadhafi's soldiers in the heart of his regime's stronghold. "We want to use it for the battle," said one man, in his mid-20s and wearing tattered clothing as he measured sheets of metal. "This is an oppressive regime that...
03:45 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Tripoli, Libya: NATO airstrikes rattled the Libyan capital on Thursday with clusters of bombing runs believed to have targeted the outskirts of Tripoli. At first, the intensity of the attacks suggested a return to the heavy NATO bombardment that hit military installations across the capital on Tuesday and flattened major buildings in leader Moammar Gadhafi's sprawling compound in the center of the city. By nightfall on Thursday, a total of...
02:27 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Tripoli, Libya: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, increasingly cornered under a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed back with renewed shelling of the western city of Misrata on Wednesday, killing 10 rebel fighters. The international alliance said it remained determined to keep pounding Gadhafi forces from the air, but would play no military role in the transition to democratic rule in oil-rich North African country once the erratic leader's 42-year rule...
03:38 AM, Jun 09, 2011
Gadhafi praised UK PM Brown and members of the royal family by name. ...
04:21 PM, Aug 23, 2009
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