Obama On Libya

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  Barack Obama Hits Out At Cameron, Sarkozy Over Libya Intervention

  British leader David Cameron got "distracted" and French President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to promote his country during the 2011 NATO-led military intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic on Thursday.

• World will stand with post-Gaddafi Libya: Obama

  Seeking to bolster a nation in transition, US President Barack Obama is promising the Libyan people that the world will stand with them as they reshape their country following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's regime.

• 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.

• Obama cites limits of US role in Libya

  President Obama defended the American-led military assault in Libya on Monday, saying it was in the national interest of the United States to stop a potential massacre that would have "stained the conscience of the world."In his first major address since ordering American airstrikes on the forces and artillery of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi nine days a...

• 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...

• Obama takes hard line with Libya after shift by Clinton

  In a Paris hotel room on Monday night, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Liby...

• Military action against Libya possible, says Obama

  US President Barack Obama warned Libya's leaders that the US and its NATO allies are still considering military options in response to what he called "unacceptable" violence perpetrated by supporters of Moammar Gaddafi."I want to send a very clear message to those who are around Colonel Gaddafi. It is their choice to make how they operate moving fo...

• Obama says Gaddafi's time is up as Libya's leader

  US President Barack Obama dropped the careful condemnation, threats of consequences and the reminders to Moammar Gaddafi's regime about its responsibility to avoid violence. In their place he delivered a more forceful message to the Libyan leader: Leave.The president called on Gaddafi to step down for the first time Saturday, saying that the Libyan...

• Did Gaddafi order Lockerbie bombing?

  "I have proof that Gaddafi gave the order about Lockerbie," Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying in an interview with Expressen, a Stockholm-based tabloid.Abdel-Jalil, who stepped down as justice minister to protest the clampdown on anti-government demonstrations, didn't describe the proof.Gaddafi has accepted Libya's responsibility for the bom...

• Obama: Suffering and bloodshed in Libya is 'outrageous' and unacceptable

  President Barack Obama on Wednesday condemned the violence in Libya as "outrageous and unacceptable" and said he was dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Geneva on Monday for international talks aimed at stopping the violence.Obama said he was studying a "full range of options" to pressure Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime ...