Kareem Fahim The New York Times

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From the feeble cover of sand dunes, under assault from a warplane overhead and heavy artillery from a hill, rebels in this strategic oil city repelled an attack by hundreds of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's fighters on Wednesday. The daylong battle was the first major incursion by the colonel's forces in the rebel-held east of the country since the Lib...

Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's forces struck back at his opponents on three fronts on Monday, with Special Forces, regular army troops and, rebels said, fighter jets, in an escalation of hostilities that brought Libya a step closer to civil war. But the rebels dismissed the attacks as ineffectual, and Colonel Gaddafi faced a growing international campai...

Rebels seeking to overturn the 40-year rule of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi repelled a concerted assault by his forces on Thursday on cities close to the capital, removing any doubt that Libya's patchwork of protests had evolved into an increasingly well-armed revolutionary movement. The series of determined stands by rebel forces on Thursday -- especia...

As Egyptians turned their anger on symbols of the state late last month, torching police stations along with the headquarters of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, they reserved a special hatred for a garish building with black tinted windows in an upscale neighborhood, setting fire to it three times.It belongs to a steel tycoon and ruling par...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From the feeble cover of sand dunes, under assault from a warplane overhead and heavy artillery from a hill, rebels in this strategic oil city repelled an attack by hundreds of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's fighters on Wednesday. The daylong battle was the first major incursion by the colonel's forces in the rebel-held east of the country since the Lib...

Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's forces struck back at his opponents on three fronts on Monday, with Special Forces, regular army troops and, rebels said, fighter jets, in an escalation of hostilities that brought Libya a step closer to civil war. But the rebels dismissed the attacks as ineffectual, and Colonel Gaddafi faced a growing international campai...

Rebels seeking to overturn the 40-year rule of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi repelled a concerted assault by his forces on Thursday on cities close to the capital, removing any doubt that Libya's patchwork of protests had evolved into an increasingly well-armed revolutionary movement. The series of determined stands by rebel forces on Thursday -- especia...

As Egyptians turned their anger on symbols of the state late last month, torching police stations along with the headquarters of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, they reserved a special hatred for a garish building with black tinted windows in an upscale neighborhood, setting fire to it three times.It belongs to a steel tycoon and ruling par...