Kareem Fahim New York Times

• US and UN demand details on how Gaddafi died

  International calls mounted Friday for Libya's interim leaders to provide a fuller accounting of the final moments before Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's violent, messy death, as new videos circulated that showed him and his son Muatassim alive, apparently while in the custody of the former rebels.

• Young men who found Gaddafi have his golden gun, satellite phone

  They had the ultimate trophies of the revolution: the colonel's golden gun, his satellite phone, his brown scarf and one black boot. A small group of fighters from Misurata, the vanguard of the force attacking Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi's former hometown and final hide-out, Sirte, said they had stumbled upon him hiding in a drainage pipe. He was bl...

• Conflicting reports of how Gaddafi died

  Colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi's last moments on Thursday were as violent as the uprising that overthrew him.

• Rebels stalled as diplomats meet on Libya in London

  Rebels seeking the ouster of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi traded rocket fire with loyalist forces who blunted the insurgents' westward advance on Tuesday as an array of diplomats and public figures gathered in London to shape a political vision of a post-Gaddafi era."We meet now in London at a turning point," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to...

• 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...

• Airstrikes clear way for Libyan rebels' first major advance

  Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's forces retreated from this strategic city on Saturday, running for dozens of miles back along the coast with Libyan rebels in pursuit in their first major victory since American and European airstrikes began a week ago.The rebels' advance was the first sign that the allied attacks, directed not only against Colonel Gaddafi...

• US warplane crashes in Libya

  An American F-15E fighter jet crashed in Libya overnight and one crew member has been recovered while the other is "in the process of recovery," according to a spokesman for the American military's Africa Command and a British reporter who saw the wreckage.The crash was likely caused by mechanical failure and not hostile fire, the spokesman, Vince ...

• US-led assault nears goal in Libya

  An American-led military campaign to destroy Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi'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 a...

• 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...

• Libya: Coalition rejects claims of civilian deaths

  After a second night of American and European strikes by air and sea against Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's forces, European nations on Monday rejected Libyan claims that civilians had been killed. Pro-Gaddafi forces were reported, meanwhile, to be holding out against the allied campaign to break their hold on the ground while enforcing a no-fly zone.Re...

• In a field of flowers, the wreckage of war in Libya

  The attack seemed to have come out of clear skies onto a field of wildflowers. Littered across the landscape, some 30 miles south of Benghazi, the detritus of the allied airstrikes on Saturday and Sunday morning offered a panorama of destruction: tanks, charred and battered, their turrets blasted clean off, one with a body still caught in its remna...

• Gaddafi forces batter rebels in strategic refinery town

  Forces loyal to the Libyan leader, Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi, repulsed a rebel push to the west on Wednesday and then counter-attacked with airstrikes and increasingly accurate artillery fire on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf, which the rebels have held for several days.In the western half of the country, elite government troops continue...

• Opposition in Libya struggles to form a united front

  In less than three weeks, an inchoate opposition in Libya, one of the world's most isolated countries, has cobbled together the semblance of a transitional government, fielded a ragtag rebel army and portrayed itself to the West and Libyans as an alternative to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's four decades of freakish rule. But events this week have teste...

• Libyan government presses assault in East and West

  Forces loyal to Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi continued their onslaught on both the eastern and western fronts on Tuesday, with warplanes renewing airstrikes here after taunting rebels with flyovers and bombing runs near this coastal city's oil refinery.The air attacks, which wounded a family of five on Monday, came amid reports of a possible peace of...

• Rebel advance in Libya set back by heavy assault

  With tanks, helicopters and fighter planes, troops loyal to Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi attacked rebel troops in the coastal town of Bin Jawwad on Sunday and pushed them east, stalling, for the moment, hopes by the anti-government fighters of a steady march toward Tripoli. By Monday, rebel forces said they were seeking to regroup but needed reinforceme...