Libya Airstrikes

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  At Least 42 Killed, Dozens Wounded In Libya Air Strike

  At least 42 people were killed and dozens wounded in an air strike targeting a town hall meeting in southern Libya, a local official and the UN-recognised government said Monday, accusing forces of military strongman Khalifa Haftar.

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  Anti-ISIS Air Raid Kills More Than 40 In Libya: Officials

  An air strike by an unidentified warplane Friday killed more than 40 people near the Libyan capital where suspected members of the ISIS were gathered, officials said.

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  Egypt Rejects Blame for Civilians Killed in Libya Airstrikes

  Egypt on Tuesday rejected accusations of blame in the death of seven civilians killed in Libya last week when Cairo's military bombed suspected Islamist militant targets after the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians.

• Second Air Strike Hits Airport in Libya's Capital

  An air strike hit the last functioning commercial airport in Libya's capital Tripoli for a second day running today, residents said, as a power struggle in the oil-rich nation intensified.

• Tripoli sites bombed, rebels claim success in east

  NATO warplanes struck Tripoli early Tuesday in the heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital in weeks, while rebels claimed gains amid an uptick of fighting on a long-deadlocked front line in the country's east.NATO struck at least four sites in Tripoli, setting off crackling explosions that thundered through the city overnight. One strike hit a build...

• CIA agents in Libya aid airstrikes and meet rebels

  The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's forces, according to American officials.While President Obama has insisted that no American military ground troops participate in the Libyan ca...

• Pro-Gaddafi forces push rebels into chaotic retreat

  Forces loyal to Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi advanced rapidly on Wednesday, seizing towns they ceded just days ago after intense allied airstrikes and hounding rebel fighters into a chaotic retreat. Having abandoned Bin Jawwad on Tuesday and the oil town of Ras Lanuf on Wednesday, the rebels continued their eastward retreat, fleeing before the loyalists...

• NATO to assume command of Libya operations

  NATO will assume command of all aerial operations -- including ground attacks -- in Libya from the U.S.-led force that has been conducting air strikes against Moammar Gaddafi's forces, officials said Sunday.The North Atlantic Council -- the alliance's top body -- approved a plan to expand the previously agreed mission to enforce the U.N. arms embar...

• 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...

• NATO agrees to take command of no-fly zone in Libya

  NATO member nations approved Thursday evening a plan under which the alliance will assume command of the no-fly zone over Libya, while allied warplanes delivered a ferocious round of airstrikes on Libyan ground forces that seems to have begun to shift momentum from the troops loyal to Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi to the rebels opposing him.The secret...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Gaddafi pledges 'long war' as allies pursue air assault on Libya

  A day after American and European forces began a broad campaign of strikes against the government of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi, the Libyan leader delivered a fresh and defiant tirade on Sunday, pledging retaliation and saying his forces would fight a long war to victory.He was speaking in a telephone call to state television, which, apparently for se...