Libyan Civil War

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian airlines have suspended flights to Libya’s capital Tripoli after armed men swarmed the runway and stopped a plane from taking off, a company official said Sunday. Flights were suspended until “an improvement in the security conditions,” said Soulafa Mokaddem, a spokeswoman for Tunisair. Those to Libya’s second city, Benghazi in […]

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s new leaders will declare liberation on Sunday, officials said, a move that will start the clock for elections after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. But the victory has been clouded by questions over how Gadhafi was killed after images emerged showing he […]

Competing factions, bounty hunters and Libyan commandos are struggling in their hunt to find deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi. Without help from NATO, those involved in the hunt have thus far had to rely on human intelligence. Conflicting reports of Gaddafi’s whereabout have surfaced, but none have been confirmed. The manhunt for Gaddafi is an […]

Libyan President Moammar Gahdafi is surrounded by a group of rebels in Tripoli, Reuters news agency reported Thursday. Gahdafi narrowly escaped capture Wednesday, but now may be cornered with an unspecified amount of his sons. The New York Post reports: The report said Khadafy was inside the building with an unspecified number of his sons. […]

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) – A TV channel is quoting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as saying he retreated from his Tripoli compound in a “tactical move” after 64 NATO airstrikes turned it to rubble. Al-Rai TV said Wednesday it would air the comments from Gadhafi in full soon and reported an excerpt in which the leader […]

Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam was spotted outside Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel early Tuesday, just days after the National Transitional Council’s reported that he had been captured Sunday, CNN’s Matthew Chance reports. Saif was in a convoy of armored Land Cruisers and spoke to Chance briefly, even pausing for a photo. Read more at […]