Libya Revolutionaries

Libyan authorities granted immunity to former rebels who fought to oust Moammar Gaddafi's regime and has criminalised any glorification of the former leader, in laws passed on Thursday.

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...

Dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Muammar Gaddafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: "Don't kill me, my sons." Within an hour, he was dead, but not before jubilant Libyans had vented decades of hatred by pulling the eccentric dictator's hair and parading his bloodied body on the hood of a truck.

A gunbattle erupted between revolutionary forces and Muammar Gaddafi supporters on Friday in the heart of the Libyan capital for the first time since the longtime leader was ousted and forced into hiding.

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 authorities granted immunity to former rebels who fought to oust Moammar Gaddafi's regime and has criminalised any glorification of the former leader, in laws passed on Thursday.

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...

Dragged from hiding in a drainage pipe, a wounded Muammar Gaddafi raised his hands and begged revolutionary fighters: "Don't kill me, my sons." Within an hour, he was dead, but not before jubilant Libyans had vented decades of hatred by pulling the eccentric dictator's hair and parading his bloodied body on the hood of a truck.

A gunbattle erupted between revolutionary forces and Muammar Gaddafi supporters on Friday in the heart of the Libyan capital for the first time since the longtime leader was ousted and forced into hiding.

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.