The long-running crisis over the running of a post-Muammar Gaddafi Libya has met its moment of truth this week with the escalation of violence in various parts of the sprawling North African oil-rich country. In retrospect, history is likely to (...)
Libya said on Sunday it would secure the area near its border with Tunisia after Tunis closed all of its crossing points, blocking Tripoli's main supply route, after clashes between militiamen and border guards.
Tunisian officials have said the (...)
TUNIS/TRIPOLI – Tunisia threatened to report Libya to the UN Security Council if it fired into Tunisian territory again, after Libya's 3-month-old conflict spilled beyond its borders.
Libyan rebels and a Tunisian security source said the head of (...)
The chairman of Libya's National Oil Corporation has defected from Muammar Gaddafi's administration and fled to neighbouring Tunisia, a Tunisian security source said on Tuesday.
Libyan rebels also said they had information that Shokri Ghanem, 68, (...)
Dehiba, Tunisia—Salih sits in loose brown traditional qamis and sirwal in the middle of a mosque still under construction, prayer rugs covering the unfinished concrete floor. He's surrounded by other men clad in long robes and skull caps—refugees as (...)
Tripoli -- Libyan rebels fought a fierce battle with forces loyal to Muammar Qadhafi near the airport at the western city of Misrata on Sunday as NATO planes targeted government ammunition stores on another front in the war.
Hundreds have died in (...)
NATO planes pounded Libyan government weapons depots southeast of the town of Zintan on Monday, in a sign of widening conflict in the Western Mountains region as rebels battle to unseat Muammar Gaddafi.
"The air strikes occurred around 1100 (0900 (...)
Artillery rounds fired by forces loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi fell in Tunisia on Saturday as fighting broke out near the border between Libyan soldiers and anti-Gaddafi rebels.
Schools were evacuated and residents scurried for safety in the (...)
News of the death of Saif Al-Arab Gaddafi in a bombing raid has sparked renewed criticisms of NATO operations in the Libyan conflict, writes David Tresilian in Paris
News that Saif Al-Arab Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and three of (...)
Libyan army fires volleys of rockets at the opposition-held town of Zintan in the Western Mountains, pressing on with a campaign that has created a humanitarian crisis and forced thousands to flee the country
NATO officers met on Wednesday in (...)
Tripoli -- Forces loyal to Muammar Qadhafi stepped up their onslaught on rebel areas of Libya's Western Mountains late on Monday, rebels said, and refugees said towns in the isolated region were on the brink of starvation.
At least 10 Grad rockets (...)
TRIPOLI - Gaddafi pressed an offensive against rebel forces, burned Western embassies after the Libyan leader survived a NATO airstrike that killed his son and three grandchildren.
Funerals were expected to be held on Monday, an occasion that might (...)
Weeks of Western air strikes have failed to dislodge the Libyan leader, but have instead imposed a stalemate on a war Gaddafi looked to have been winning with government forces held at bay in the east and around the besieged city of Misrata, while (...)
NATO said forces loyal to Muamar Gaddafi had laid mines on the approach to the harbour, under siege for weeks, and forced a temporary halt in humanitarian shipments, but had not taken control of the port. Libya's government claimed earlier it was in (...)
TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Saturday he was ready for a ceasefire and negotiations provided NATO "stop its planes", but he refused to give up power as rebels and Western powers demand.
Weeks of Western air strikes have failed to (...)
DEHIBA, Tunisia - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi crossed into neighbouring Tunisia and fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town on Friday as Libya's conflict spilled beyond its borders.
Pro-Gaddafi forces fired (...)
Libyan rebels have regained control of the Dehiba crossing point on the Libyan-Tunisian border from government forces, a rebel told Reuters on Friday.
"Right here at this point I'm looking at the new (rebel) flag flying up there at the border. (...)
DEHIBA: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi crossed into neighboring Tunisia and fought a gun battle with Tunisian troops in a frontier town on Friday as Libya's conflict spilled beyond its borders.
Pro-Gaddafi forces fired shells into (...)
Tripoli -- Muammar Qadhafi's forces attacked a mountain town and a besieged coastal city Wednesday, part of a drive to crush pockets of resistance in the western part of the country that is largely under the Libyan leader's control.
The mountain (...)
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today it has started moving food aid through a new humanitarian corridor into western Libya to reach areas heavily affected by the fighting.
“Securing this humanitarian corridor is a first vital (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of Libyans who have fled civil war in their homeland now live in limbo in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia, worried about relatives left behind, struggling as money runs out and wondering if they'll ever be able to go home.
Some (...)
Federer falls
WORLD number one Roger Federer suffered a stunning 7-5 6-2 upset defeat by Argentine Guillermo Canas in the second round at Indian Wells to fall just short of the all-time consecutive wins record.
Federer, seeking his fourth Indian (...)
