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  Barack Obama Admits Mistakes in Libya, Says West Should Have Done More

  US President Barack Obama said today the international community should have done more to avoid a leadership vacuum in Libya, which has been in disarray since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi four years ago.

• Huge Blaze Out of Control in Tripoli Battle as Libya Slides Into Chaos

  A huge fuel depot in Libya's capital burned out of control on Monday, set ablaze in fighting between rival militias that has driven the country to chaos three years after the NATO-backed revolt that toppled Muammar Gaddafi.

• Libya rebels give Gaddafi forces Saturday deadline

  Libya's rebels issued a Saturday ultimatum for Muammar Gaddafi forces to surrender or face a military onslaught, as NATO said the strongman is still able to command his troops despite being on the run.

• Libyan rebels offers £1 million reward for Gaddafi's whereabouts

  Libyan rebels have announced an amnesty for anyone within Col Muammar Gaddafi's "inner circle" who captures or kills him, and a $1.7m (£1m) reward. The head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, announced the amnesty offer from the eastern city of Benghazi. "Gaddafi's forces and his accomplices will not stop resisting ...

• Gaddafi defiant after rebel takeover

  Backed by NATO airstrikes and seasoned reinforcements, rebel fighters crashed through the gates of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's fortresslike compound on Tuesday, running madly across its sprawling lawns, ransacking its barracks for weapons and carting off mementos of his 42-year dictatorship.

• Gaddafi son resurfaces, free and vowing to fight

  The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early on Tuesday, a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance that his father's loyalists still control parts of Tripoli and would crush the rebellion.

• NATO racing to wrap up Libya campaign

  With NATO's bombing of Libya now in its sixth month, a new sense of urgency is gripping the alliance before two critical deadlines next month.After months of combat stalemate, the insurgents have made dramatic gains in recent weeks. An offensive from their beleaguered enclave in the Nafuz Mountains resulted in the capture of the strategic Mediterra...

• Libyan government denies death of Gaddafi's son

  A senior Libyan government official has denied rebel reports that Moammar Gaddafi's youngest son was killed in a NATO airstrike on the western town of Zlitan

• Another Gaddafi son killed in NATO attack: Libyan rebels

  A Libyan rebel spokesman says his side has unconfirmed reports that Moammar Gaddafi's youngest son has been killed in a NATO airstrike on the western town of Zlitan.

• Tripoli bombed, Gaddafi lashes 'colonial plot'

  NATO warplanes blitzed a string of military targets in Tripoli today, an official said, as embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi blamed a "colonial plot" for the conflict engulfing his country."In Tripoli there were two command and control nodes, two surface-to-air missile launchers and one anti-aircraft gun (hit)," a NATO official said from the ...

• Blasts rock Libyan capital in area of Gaddafi compound

  NATO fighter planes struck the Libyan capital, hitting the Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's headquarters in Bab al-Aziziyah in Tripoli in the early hours of Saturday morning.

• Gaddafi threatens Europe if NATO presses air war

  Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi has threatened retaliation against Europe unless NATO ceases its operations, warning loyalist forces can launch stinging attacks like "locusts and bees.""The Libyan people are capable, one day, of taking the battle to Europe and the Mediterranean," Gaddafi said yesterday in a speech broadcast by loudspeaker to thousand...

• Libyan leader Gaddafi says NATO will not win

  Provoked by renewed daylight NATO bombing of his capital, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi raged against the alliance, screaming his message and daring Western forces to keep it up. Gaddafi spoke in a telephone call that was piped through loudspeakers to a few thousand people demonstrating in Tripoli's Green Square yesterday, at the end of the da...

• Libyan leader Gaddafi says NATO will not win

  Provoked by renewed daylight NATO bombing of his capital, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi raged against the alliance on Friday, screaming his message and daring Western forces to keep it up.Gaddafi spoke in a telephone call that was piped through loudspeakers to a few thousand people demonstrating in Tripoli's Green Square, at the end of a day when N...

• NATO pounds area near Gaddafi's compound

  NATO on Thursday pounded the area near Muammar Gaddafi's compound during a pre-dawn raid in the Libyan capital Tripoli.A series of thunderous booms rumbled in quick succession shortly before 5 am, rattling windows in the heart of the city. A column of smoke could be seen rising from the vicinity of the Libyan leader's Bab al-Aziziya compound as sir...