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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
Muammar Gaddafi's home town of Sirte on Saturday but encountered heavy sniper fire as they tried to win control of one of the deposed leader's last strongholds. Black smoke billowed over Sirte as National Transitional Council (NTC) forces massed in...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
Breaking News Suspected banned weapons found in Libya Libyan provisional government forces have found weapons believed to be banned internationally near Sabha and Wadan, the head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil, said...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Transitional National Council (TNC) troops braved heavy rocket and machine gun fire as the new Libyan regime's forces launched a "surprise" assault on Moamar Gadhafi's hometown Sirte, which one commander believed would lead to the city's fall on...
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Al Jazeera English
| over 1 year ago
Al Jazeera correspondents said NTC fighters on Saturday had pushed into the center of the city, overrunning positions that forces loyal to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi had held for months. Gaddafi's forces battled the attackers with mortars and...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
Hundreds of revolutionary fighters pushed into Moammar Gadhafi's hometown Saturday in the first significant assault in about a week as Libya's new rulers try to rout remaining loyalists of the fugitive leader. At the same time, the political...
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Mail and Guardian
| over 1 year ago
As temperatures soared above 41C and rebels took control of the Libyan capital in August, the failing dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi had one last weapon: thirst. Deep in the desert, pro-Gaddafi loyalists shut off the wells and pumps that provided...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
Thank you, minister, Mrs. Clinton enthused as she pointed toward the country's new minister of women's affairs...Some of the world's longest-serving tyrants (and once star attractions among the weeklong marathon of speeches) have been overthrown. The...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
Libyan rebels discover Gaddafi's chemical weapons by News Source on September 22, 2011 The Guardian reports: Libyan rebel forces claim to have discovered banned chemical weapons stockpiles in southern desert areas captured from Gaddafi loyalists in...
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Arab News
| over 1 year ago
National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul Jalil told Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting that Libya's people appreciated China's support, the official Xinhua news...
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Novinite
| over 1 year ago
The Gaddafi loyalists have been executing residents suspected of sympathizing with Libya 's new rulers, Al Jazeera reported citing witness accounts. Sirte is one of the last three spots in Libya under the control of the Gaddafi loyalists, located 450...
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All Africa
| over 1 year ago
Moses Hategeka 21 September 2011 Watching the jubilant crowds in Benghazi and Misrata on TV celebrating the fall of former Libyan strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, in addition to thousands who recently welcomed Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the leader of...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Ambassador Gene Cretz has returned to Tripoli where the U.S. plans to raise its flag over its mission on Thursday...He left the country after WikiLeaks released his assessments of former leader Moammar Gadhafi's personal life in which he described...
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National Public Radio
| over 1 year ago
September 21, 2011 As Libyans work to form an interim government, some of those competing for power are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, raising fears that Islamist radicals may try to hijack the revolution. But many Libyans say those fears are...
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
The US ambassador to Libya returned to Tripoli on Wednesday to lead a newly reopened American embassy in a post-Muammar Gaddafi era. Ambassador Gene Cretz arrived in Tripoli, a day before plans to raise the US flag over the embassy building in the...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
Ambassador Gene Cretz arrived in Tripoli Wednesday, a day before plans to raise the US flag over the embassy building in the Libyan capital. President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that the ambassador would return, telling Libyans: "This is your...
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Canadian Free Press
| over 1 year ago
After the new flag of Libya was ceremoniously brought into the conference meeting room, the Secretary General made his introductory remarks congratulating the Libyan people for fighting courageously for your fundamental rights and freedoms and...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below Renewed ... a Libyan waves the pre-Gaddafi Kingdom of Libya flag during Friday prayers. Photo: reuters First, his insistence that America should lead from behind in the Libyan intervention had proved to be ''a lesson in what the...
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Libya Anti-Gadhafi authorities on Wednesday admitted heavy losses in an assault on the deposed Libyan despot's hometown Sirte, but said they have captured a string of oasis towns. The United States prepared meanwhile to raise the U.S. flag over its...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
National Transitional Council officials said Wednesday that anti-Gadhafi fighters are still encountering some resistance, but have largely taken over the city. As provisional authority forces struggle to oust Gadhafi loyalists from the towns of Bani...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
Libya's central bank has enough money to cover state spending for up to six months and has no urgent need to resort to bridge loans, a finance official said on Wednesday. Wafik Shater, a finance official in the National Transitional Council's (NTC's)...
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Denver Post
| over 1 year ago
Libya A month after jubilant revolutionary fighters seized control of Tripoli, the movement is grappling with military and political setbacks in the struggle to wrest all of Libya from Moammar Gadhafi's loyalists. The former rebels on Tuesday plowed...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
President Obama on Tuesday extended to Libya's transitional leader a diplomatic honor never offered his predecessor, meeting formally with Mustafa Abdel-Jalil at the United Nations and heralding the victory of Libyan rebels who brought an end to the...
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GMA News
| over 1 year ago
Libya's new flag flew at the United Nations on Tuesday for the first time since Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow as U.S. President Barack Obama called for the last of the deposed leader's loyalists to stop fighting...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,...
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Kuwait Times
| over 1 year ago
Libya's former rebel leaders basked in praise yesterday at the United Nations while fugitive strongman Muammar Gaddafi issued an audio message calling the new government a "charade". With the new Libyan flag flying at the UN headquarters, interim...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told the NTC the Security Council had acted to protect the Libyan people from violence. "Today, we must once again respond with such speed and decisive action, this time to consolidate peace and democracy," Mr Ban...
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
Ousted Libyan leader saw the last two bastions of key diplomatic support turn their back on him on Tuesday, as his country's interim leader was welcomed with open arms by world leaders gathered in New York. Both the African Union, which Gaddafi...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, welcoming Libya's new leaders into the international community, said the Security Council had acted to protect the Libyan people from violence. (Reuters)
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
The chairman of Libya's transitional government is telling world leaders that his nation has returned to the international community committed to peace, human rights, free elections and reconciliation. An array of world leaders including the U.S. and...
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday met Libya's interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil for the first time, and said the world would stand with his liberated country as it solidifies its freedom. The president met the leader of the National Transitional...
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Al Jazeera English
| over 1 year ago
C US president and world leaders hail leaders of Libyan interim government in New York, as UN raises country's new flag...With the new Libyan flag flying at the UN headquarters in new York on Tuesday, interim government leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama has promised the NTC the world will stand with the Libyans and provide help for the new Libya. Speaking at a high-level UN meeting he urged Gaddafi loyalists to lay down their arms. We will stand with you in your struggle to...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
His schedule included one-on-one talks with the chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, as well as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Dilma...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
President Barack Obama says his administration will support the people of Libya as they build a "free, democratic and prosperous" future. Obama said in remarks prepared for a Libya Contact Group meeting Tuesday at the United Nations that Libya will...
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Mail and Guardian
| over 1 year ago
South Africa joined the African Union in recognising the National Transitional Council as Libya's de facto government on Tuesday, after its concerns over representation and the safety of African workers were addressed. The move further strips away...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
He was to meet first with Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of Libya's Transitional National Council (TNC). (Reuters)
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Mohamad Ali Hariss, Kareem Fahim, Simon Denyer September 21, 2011 An anti-Gaddafi fighter at a pro-Gaddafi weapons and ammunition compound in a village near Sirte. A senior general loyal to Muammar Gaddafi has been captured in southern Libya as...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Libya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi has issued a defiant audio message warning his opponents that Nato protection cannot last indefinitely. The message, the third since he was ousted last month, was broadcast on the Syria-based Arrai TV network.
