Obama And Gaddafi

• Mysterious YouTube video accuses Russia's Dmitry Medvedev of treason

  Dmitry Medvedev is glimpsed exchanging confidential smiles with Barack Obama as sinister music plays. The dead body of Russian ally Moammar Gaddafi, driven from power by the West, is dragged through the dirt. A camera homes in on the prime minister sweating and shifting uneasily in his chair.

• Obama: Libya slipping from grasp of tyrant

  Following a day of dramatic developments in Libya, President Barack Obama said on Sunday night that the situation there has reached a "tipping point" and that control of the capital was "slipping from the grasp of a tyrant." He called on Muammar Gaddafi to accept reality and relinquish power.

• Libyan rebels march toward Gaddafi stronghold

  American and European bombs battered Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's most important bastion of support in his tribal homeland of Surt on Sunday night, as rebels seeking his ouster capitalized on the damage from the Western airstrikes to erase their recent losses and return to the city's doorstep. Their swift return, recapturing two important oil refiner...

• US seeks to unify allies as more airstrikes rock Tripoli

  President Obama worked on Tuesday to bridge differences among allies about how to manage the military campaign in Libya, as airstrikes continued to rock Tripoli and forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi showed no sign of ending their sieges of rebel-held cities. On a day when two United States airmen bailed out over Libya and were rescued after t...

• 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...

• US launches military action against Libya: Obama

  President Barack Obama authorized limited military action against Libya on Saturday, saying Moammar Gaddafi's continued assault on his own people left the U.S. and its international partners with no other choice. The Pentagon said 112 cruise missiles were launched from US and UK ships and subs, hitting 20 targets.Obama said military action was not ...

• World leaders meet on Libya, military action in hours?

  World leaders met Saturday in a summit in Paris that could be the final step before immediate international military action against Moammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya.The emergency summit of Arab and European leaders and the chief of the U.N. took place as Gaddafi's forces swarmed into the one-time rebel stronghold of Benghazi -- apparently ignoring...

• Stop attacks on civilians or face military action, Obama warns Gaddafi

  US President Barack Obama on Friday ordered Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi to carry out an immediate cease-fire, withdraw his forces from rebel-held cities and stop all attacks on Libyan civilians or face military action from the United States and its allies in Europe and the Arab world. "Let me be clear, these terms are not negotiable," Mr. Obama said fr...

• Obama declares Gaddafi must step down, leave now

  President Barack Obama insisted on Thursday that Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi "step down from power and leave," his most explicit statement of support for rebels challenging Gaddafi's four-decade rule in a region convulsed by uprisings against authoritarian regimes. Gaddafi has vowed to stay.Obama did not rule out establishing a "no fly" zone over...

• Obama says Gaddafi's time is up as Libya's leader

  US President Barack Obama dropped the careful condemnation, threats of consequences and the reminders to Moammar Gaddafi's regime about its responsibility to avoid violence. In their place he delivered a more forceful message to the Libyan leader: Leave.The president called on Gaddafi to step down for the first time Saturday, saying that the Libyan...

• Obama: Suffering and bloodshed in Libya is 'outrageous' and unacceptable

  President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the violence in Libya as "outrageous and unacceptable" and said he was dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Geneva on Monday for international talks aimed at stopping the violence.Obama said he was studying a "full range of options" to pressure Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime ...