Libya Gaddafi

• 53 bodies of Gaddafi loyalists found, says human rights group

  A human rights groups says it has discovered 53 decomposing bodies, apparently of Moammar Gaddafi loyalists, some of whom may have been executed by revolutionary forces. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday that the discovery in Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte "seems part of a trend of killings, looting and other abuses committed by ant...

• Who is Moammar Gaddafi?

  It has been over 40 years since Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi came to power in Libya - and for nearly as long the West watched his every move. The financier of an eclectic array of guerrilla groups around the globe, he was responsible, according to Western intelligence, for many of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the mid-80s, including the 1988 bombin...

• Libyan fighters inch forward in Gaddafi hometown

  Revolutionary fighters struggled to make gains in an assault into Gaddafi's hometown on Saturday with bloody street-by-street battles against loyalist forces fiercely defending the most symbolic of the shattered regime's remaining strongholds.

• Libyan rebels say new govt within 10 days

  A new transitional government will be formed in Libya within 10 days, the deputy chief of the National Transitional Council told reporters.

• Gaddafi, in hiding, vows no surrender in Libya

  In a fiery broadcast from hiding, Gaddafi warned on Thursday that loyalist tribes in his main strongholds were armed and preparing for battle, a show of defiance hours after rebels extended a deadline for the surrender of the fugitive leader's hometown.

• Tripoli returning to normalcy

  Life is slowly returning to normal in Tripoli, a week after anti-regime rebels took control of most of the Libyan capital. Shops have reopened, there's brisk business at the market, and only the near-incessant blaring of car horns suggests that life has changed there for ever.

• Gaddafi plays chess with Russian visitor

  As the world awaits Moammar Gaddafi's next move, the Libyan leader has been playing chess with the visiting Russian head of the World Chess Federation.The federation is headed by the eccentric Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who until last year was the leader of Russia's predominantly Buddhist republic of Kalmykia. He once claimed to have visited an alien spac...

• 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...

• Libya: NATO set to take full command of military campaign

  Overcoming internal squabbles, NATO prepared on Friday to assume leadership from the United States of the military campaign against Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's forces, senior NATO officials said, while the allied effort won a rare military commitment in the Arab world when the United Arab Emirates said it would send warplanes to join patrols with Wes...

• Shady dealings helped Gaddafi build fortune, regime

  In 2009, top aides to Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi called together 15 executives from global energy companies operating in Libya's oil fields and issued an extraordinary demand: Shell out the money for his country's $1.5 billion bill for its role in the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 and other terrorist attacks. If the companies did not comply, the Libyan...

• 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...

• Tripoli is hit but Gaddafi isn't target, claims US

  American and European militaries intensified their barrage of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's forces by air and sea on Sunday, as the mission moved beyond taking away his ability to use Libyan airspace, to obliterating his hold on the ground as well, allied officials said. On Monday, European nations went out of their way to rebut Libyan claims that civi...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• Libya declares ceasefire after UN resolution

  Libya declared an immediate cease-fire and promised to stop military operations on Friday in a bid to fend off international military intervention after the U.N. authorized a no-fly zone and "all necessary measures" to prevent the regime from striking its own people.The announcement by Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa followed a fierce attack by Gadd...