Gaddafi Supporters

• Libya opens 'first civil trial' of pro-Gaddafi suspects

  Five defendants appeared in the dock in the Libyan city of Zawiyah on Tuesday in what court officials said was the first civil trial of suspected supporters of slain dictator Moamer Gaddafi.Judge Amer al-Turki did not read out any charge sheet before adjourning the trial for a week at the request of defence lawyers.

• New fighting breaks out in Libyan capital

  A gunbattle erupted between revolutionary forces and Muammar Gaddafi supporters on Friday in the heart of the Libyan capital for the first time since the longtime leader was ousted and forced into hiding.

• Libya: Anti-Gaddafi fighters capture Sirte's port

  Anti-Gaddafi forces overran Sirte's port on Tuesday, but in the other stronghold of supporters of the ousted Libyan leader, the new regime's fighters were beaten back by fierce resistance.

• 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 ...

• Libya government: Over 100 civilians killed in coalition fire

  In Tripoli later on Friday, a Health Ministry official Khaled Omar said a "total of 114 Libyans" have died and 445 were injured in the international airstrikes, but he did not provide a breakdown of how many were soldiers or civilians. US and British officials insisted civilians have been spared and retort that the Libyan leader has engineered...

• Libya unrest: 'We'll be victorious', a defiant Gaddafi tells supporters

  Libyan TV broadcast on Tuesday night what it said was a brief live address by ruler Moammar Gaddafi before supporters at his encampment near Tripoli, the Libyan capital.Gaddafi was shown standing on a balcony before a crowd of supporters.Denouncing the coalition bombing attacks on his forces, he told them, "in the short term, we'll beat them, in th...

• Tripoli is hit again as Europe spars over no-fly zone

  An American-led military campaign to destroy Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's air defenses and establish a no-fly zone over Libya has nearly accomplished its initial objectives, and the United States is moving swiftly to hand command to allies in Europe, American officials said Monday. But the firepower of more than 130 Tomahawk cruise missiles and attack...

• Target in Libya is clear, intent is not

  All the deliberations over what military action to take against Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi of Libya have failed to answer the most fundamental question: Is it merely to protect the Libyan population from the government, or is it intended to fulfill President Obama's objective declared two weeks ago that Colonel Gaddafi "must leave"? "We are not going ...

• At Gaddafi compound, a human shield

  Even as the allied intervention began, a group of foreign journalists were bused on a rare visit inside Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's compound -- a labyrinth of concrete barracks, fortified walls and barbed wire designed to deter potential military coups.There, hundreds of supporters offered themselves up as human shields, cheering to newly minted danc...

• Libya unrest: Arab League endorses no-flight zone

  The Arab League asked the United Nations Security Council on Saturday to impose a no-flight zone over Libya in hopes of halting Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's attacks on his own people, providing the rebels a tincture of hope even as they were driven back from a long stretch of road it had captured in the three-week war. The extraordinary move by the 22...