Libya Protests

• Libya's ports reopen after protests, gas complex attacked

  Libya's oil terminals at Tobruk and Zueitina re-opened over the weekend after protests forced both ports to shut, Libya's deputy oil minister Omar Shakmak said.

• Libyan protesters eject militants from Benghazi, four killed

  Libyans angry over the enduring power of paramilitary groups in Benghazi stormed the bases of an Islamist militia and an ex-rebel unit sparking clashes that left at least four people dead, according to early Saturday figures.

• NATO admits first civilian casualties in Libya

  NATO has said that it regretted its first civilian casualties in Libya and its second misfire in 24 hours, as strains emerged within the alliance and rebel forces failed to make progress on the ground.In a statement, the alliance acknowledged responsibility for civilian deaths in a Tripoli bombing raid that left nine dead, including two toddlers."N...

• Prosecutor says Gaddafi ordered mass rape

  The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday he was investigating whether Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi provided Viagra-type drugs to Libyan soldiers to promote the rape of women during the current conflict.Luis Moreno Ocampo said his office had "information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were agai...

• Gaddafi vows to fight till the end as NATO continues airstrikes

  Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi vowed to fight to the death in a defiant speech Tuesday after NATO military craft unleashed a ferocious series of some daytime airstrikes on Tripoli.In a phone call to Libyan state television station, Gaddafi angrily denounced the rebels who rose up against him in mid-February, inspired by a wave of Arab uprisings."We w...

• Libya offers truce to UN as revolt enters fourth month

  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's prime minister has offered a truce to the visiting UN special envoy to Libya, Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib, in return for an immediate NATO ceasefire, as an anti-regime revolt entered a fourth month.The head of Britain's armed forces, meanwhile, said NATO should widen its bombing campaign to ensure Gaddafi is unable to cling...

• From Gadaffi daughter, a rare glimpse into the bunker

  Aisha el-Qaddafi, the daughter of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya, likes to tell her three young children bedtime stories about the afterlife. Now, she says, they are especially appropriate. "To make them ready," she said, "because in a time of war you never know when a rocket or a bomb might hit you, and that will be the end." In a rare interview...

• Libya: Govt troops may pull out of Misrata

  Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister, Khaled Kaim, told journalists in the capital Tripoli on Friday that the Libyan army was being withdrawn from fighting in the town of Misrata, with the task of subduing rebels in the area being handed over to local "tribes".He said the army tactic had been to use "a surgical solution" but that had not worked because o...

• First US Predator strike carried out in Libya

  The Pentagon has said that the US Air Force has carried out its first Predator missile strike in Libya.A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Captain Darryn James, said the airstrike happened on Saturday. He provided no details.On Thursday, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates disclosed that President Barack Obama had approved the use of armed Predator drones to ...

• 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 ...

• Gaddafi's forces drive rebels from key oil town Brega

  Moammar Gaddafi's forces swept rebels from a key oil town on Sunday with waves of strikes from warships, tanks and warplanes, closing on the Opposition-held eastern half of Libya as insurgents pleaded for a UN-imposed no-fly zone.Gaddafi's troops have been emboldened by a string of victories in the struggle for Libya's main coastal highway but thei...

• Will never surrender, says Gaddafi's son

  Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam said on Thursday that the regime would "never surrender" to the rebels, in an interview with British media."This is our country, we will never, ever give up and we will never, ever surrender. This is our country. We fight here in Libya, we die here in Libya," he said in an interview broadcast on ...

• Revolts in Libya raise fear of migration in Europe

  Until a few weeks ago, the immigrant transfer center on this tiny Mediterranean island - a kind of Italian Ellis Island - was empty. An extensive European campaign against migration from Africa was considered so effective that the authorities basically shut it down.But since the Tunisian government collapsed in January, spurring unrest across North...

• France becomes first country to recognise Libyan rebels

  Moving ahead of its allies, France  on Thursday became the first country to recognise Libya's rebel leadership in the eastern city of Benghazi and said it would soon exchange ambassadors with the insurgents.The move was a victory for the Libyan National Council in its quest for recognition and a setback for Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi who has been...

• Clinton to meet with Libyan rebels

  US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Thursday that she would meet with Libyan rebel leaders in the United States and during travels next week to France, Tunisia and Egypt.Mrs Clinton did not identify the Libyan rebel leaders she intended to meet.American officials have reached out to members of the rebel's provisional council in eas...