Libyan Rebels

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  9 Indian Sailors Released By Libyan Rebel Group After Months Of Captivity

  Out of nine Indian crew, five are from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Rajasthan, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, and Gujarat.

• Libyan rebels demand Algeria return Gaddafi's family

  Libyan rebels are demanding that Algeria return Muammar Gaddafi's wife and three of his children for trial after they fled, raising tensions between the neighboring countries.

• Gaddafi's wife, sons, daughter flee to Algeria

  Moammar Gaddafi's wife and three of his children fled Libya to neighbouring Algeria on Monday, firm evidence that the longtime leader has lost his grip on the country.There was no indication that Gaddafi himself or his son and one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam had left the country, however, something that the rebels worry will stoke more violenc...

• Rebels free more than 10,000 Libyan prisoners

  More than 10,000 prisoners held by the regime of Moammar Gaddafi have been released since the rebels captured Tripoli, but nearly 50,000 are still missing, a rebel military spokesman said today."The number of people arrested over the past months is estimated at between 57,000 and 60,000," said Ahmed Omar Bani at a press conference in the rebel bast...

• Libyan rebels spurn Gaddafi's offer of talks

  Libyan rebels on Sunday rejected an offer by Muammar Gaddafi to negotiate and said they have captured the eastern town of Bin Jawwad, forcing regime loyalists to flee after days of fighting.

• Photo album from Gaddafi's compound reveals his 'diplo-crush' on Condoleezza Rice

  When you're the single, attractive secretary of state for the United States, you're bound to pick up groupies in all corners of the international diplomatic scene. But for Condoleezza Rice, who has been linked with diplomats from Rome (the Italian foreign minister, Massimo D'Alema) to London (Foreign Minister Jack Straw of Britain) to Pictou, Nova...

• From hiding, Gaddafi tells Libyans to free Tripoli

  From an unknown location, Moammar Gaddafi has called on the residents of the Libyan capital to "free Tripoli" from the "devils" who have overrun it.

• Gaddafi defiant after rebel takeover

  Backed by NATO airstrikes and seasoned reinforcements, rebel fighters crashed through the gates of Col. Muammar el-Gaddafi's fortresslike compound on Tuesday, running madly across its sprawling lawns, ransacking its barracks for weapons and carting off mementos of his 42-year dictatorship.

• Libyan rebels storm seat of Gaddafi power

  Hundreds of Libyan rebels stormed Muammar Gaddafi's compound on Tuesday, charging wildly through the symbolic heart of the crumbling regime as they killed loyalist troops, looted armories and knocked the head off a statue of the besieged dictator. But they found no sign of the man himself.

• Gaddafi son resurfaces, free and vowing to fight

  The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, Seif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early on Tuesday, a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance that his father's loyalists still control parts of Tripoli and would crush the rebellion.

• Gaddafi son reported arrested by rebels is free

  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son and one-time heir apparent, who was reported arrested by rebels on Sunday when they advanced on the capital Tripoli, is free.

• Libyan rebels claim control of most of Tripoli

  Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of the Libyan capital on Monday after their lightning advance on Tripoli heralded the fall of Moammar Gaddafi's nearly 42-year regime. Scattered battles erupted, and the mercurial leader's whereabouts remained unknown.The international community called on Gaddafi to step down and moved ahead with post-...

• Obama: Libya slipping from grasp of tyrant

  Following a day of dramatic developments in Libya, President Barack Obama said on Sunday night that the situation there has reached a "tipping point" and that control of the capital was "slipping from the grasp of a tyrant." He called on Muammar Gaddafi to accept reality and relinquish power.

• Tripoli falls to Libyan rebels, Gaddafi defences collapse

  Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli on Sunday and met little resistance as Muammar Gaddafi's defenders melted away and his 42-year rule rapidly crumbled. The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in Green Square, the symbolic heart of the fading regime.

• Libyan rebels say they are closing in on Tripoli

  Libyan rebels say they are closing in on Tripoli from the west and the front line is now less than 20 miles (30 kilometres) from the capital.