Monday, 22 August 2011, 9:22 WIB | Hot News | 63 views
Luke Harding in Tripoli, Lizzy Davies and agencies
Tripoli on the brink of rebel takeover. Link to this video
Heavy fighting broke out near Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli on Monday as the rebels battling for his overthrow met with opposition from forces still loyal to the Libyan dictator.
Following a euphoric night, during which the rebels swept into the capital and appeared to be edging their six-month struggle towards triumph, clashes...
Monday, 22 August 2011, 8:22 WIB | Hot News | 48 views
BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Libyan rebels swarmed into the highly symbolic Green Square at the heart of Tripoli early Monday, merely two days after they launched an offensive against the capital in the final push against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's government.
The obviously minuscule resistance put on by pro-Gaddafi forces marked a sharp contrast with the muscular defiance put up by their embattled leader, who had repeatedly and passionately...
Monday, 22 August 2011, 7:22 WIB | Hot News | 58 views
The revolt against Moammar Kadafi was born in the eastern city of Benghazi, long a caldron of discontent with the autocratic ruler.The uprising gained traction during bloody spring battles in coastal Misurata, Libya's third-largest city, where residents barricaded streets with shipping containers in ferocious urban warfare.But it is a rebel thrust from the west that may prove decisive in bringing an end to Kadafi's more than four-decade...
Monday, 22 August 2011, 4:22 WIB | Hot News | 50 views
By Jim Michaels and Oren Dorell, USA TODAY
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The regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appeared close to collapse Sunday as rebel forces raced into the capital after meeting little resistance from government forces and President Obama reiterated that the United States has recognized the Transitional National Council as the legitimate governing authority.
By Alexandre Meneghini, AP
Crowds celebrate the uprising against...
Monday, 22 August 2011, 1:22 WIB | Hot News | 68 views
Martin Chulov, and Chris Stephen in Zlitan
Libyans celebrate in Tripoli in an image taken from television after hundreds of rebel fighters surged into the capital, leaving Muammar Gaddafi facing the end of his 42-year reign. Photograph: al-Jazeera
Hundreds of rebel fighters pushed into the centre of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, late on Sunday as their battle to overthrow the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi moved closer to ending in...
Sunday, 21 August 2011, 21:22 WIB | Hot News | 61 views
Rebel forces have captured Seif al Islam Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader, in the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli and are surrounding the Gadhafi compound, Bab al Aziziya, a representative of the rebel government told ABC News.
Mohamad al Akari, a Transitional National Council advisor, said that if Moammar Gadhafi is still in Tripoli, they believe he is in Bab al Aziziya.
"Tonight it's over," Akari said.
Libyan rebel forces are now in Green Square...
Sunday, 21 August 2011, 20:23 WIB | Hot News | 51 views
Luke Harding in Maya
Libya: rebel fighters speed to join frontline fighting in the village of Maya, from where Tripoli could be seen in the distance. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP
He has ruled Libya for 42 tumultuous years. But Muammar Gaddafi's defiant regime was on Sunday entering its final hours, as an insurrection engulfed the capital Tripoli and rebels entered its outer suburbs.
In another day of dramatic advances, opposition fighters...
