Anthony Shadid New York Times

• Conflicting reports of how Gaddafi died

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

• In Arab world, confused Osama legacy

  The words were not uncommon in angry Arab capitals a decade ago: Osama bin Laden was hero, sheikh, even leader to some. But after his death, a man who once vowed to liberate the Arab world was reduced to a footnote in the revolutions and uprisings remaking a region that he and his followers had struggled to understand. In the Middle East, reactions...

• Gaddafi forces attack rebel stronghold in West

  A day after routing a ragtag army in an eastern town near the rebel capital of Benghazi, forces loyal to Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi launched attacks on Wednesday on the city of Misurata, the last rebel stronghold in western Libya.Phone lines, electricity and water were cut off as government forces used tanks and heavy artillery to bombard the city ...

• Libyan rebels flee strategic town under heavy attack

  Rebel fighters fled this strategic refinery town on Thursday under ferocious rocket attacks and airstrikes by forces loyal to the Libyan leader, Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi.The retreat capped several days of fighting as bold plans of a westward drive to Tripoli by the undermanned and ill-equipped rebel army were dashed by the superior Gaddafi forces...

• Free of Gaddafi, a city tries to build a new order

  The signs in Bayda still read the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State of the Masses. It was never much of a state, nor did the people have much say. Now two weeks after its liberation, residents of this highland town have the task of making it so, a challenge that may prove pivotal to the course of Libya's revolt.Far from the front, in mood ...

• Egypt's new PM speaks at Tahrir Square

  Carried on the shoulders of protesters who claimed him as their own, Egypt's new prime minister waded into a crowd of tens of thousands in Tahrir Square on Friday, delivering a speech bereft of regal bombast that illustrated the reach of Egypt's nascent revolution and the breadth of demonstrators' demands that remain unanswered."I am here to draw m...

• Army clearing last protesters from Tahrir square: Reports

  The Egyptian military moved to clear the last protesters from Tahrir Square on Monday as the armed forces consolidated their control over what it has called a democratic transition from nearly three decades of President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule. A day after the military dissolved the feeble Parliament, suspended the Constitution and calle...

• Uncharted ground after end of Egypt's regime

  One revolution ended on Friday. Another may soon begin.In a moment that may prove as decisive to the Middle East as the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, 18 days of protest hurtled Egypt once again to the forefront of politics in the Middle East. In the uprising's ambition, young protesters, savvy with technology and more organized than their rulers, began to...

• Mubarak quits, protesters celebrate at Tahrir Square

  President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt turned over all power to the military and left the Egyptian capital for his resort home in Sharm el-Sheik, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced on state television on Friday.The announcement, delivered during evening prayers in Cairo, set off a frenzy of celebration, with protesters shouting "Egypt is free!"The Eg...

• Mubarak leaves Cairo as crowds surge: Report

  The Egyptian military appeared to assert its leadership Friday amid growing indications that President Hosni Mubarak was yielding all power. A Western diplomat said that Mr. Mubarak had left the capital.As protesters were swarming into the streets Friday morning for what was expected to be the biggest and most volatile demonstrations in the three-w...