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Exodus of Libyans to Tunisia resumes
More than 8,000 people — most of them women and children — fled into Tunisia during the weekend to escape fighting between Libyan government troops and opposition forces, the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees said Tuesday.
Libya’s Gaddafi still alive, US spy chief says
U.S. intelligence officials believe Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has not been seen in public since a NATO missile attack reportedly killed his son, is still alive, CIA Director Leon Panetta told NBC television on Tuesday.
Libya’s Gaddafi trains volunteer army to fight NATO
The man squats down and fires. A rocket-propelled grenade shoots into the desert to calls of “Allahu Akbar,” God is Greatest. Another man takes his place. These are members of the volunteer army being trained by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in the name of fighting any NATO ground invasion.
NATO Strike Kills 12 Libyan Rebels in Misurata
At least one NATO warplane attacked a rebel position on the front lines of this besieged city on Wednesday, a rebel commander said, killing 12 fighters and wounding five others in what he called an accident that could have been avoided.
NATO decides to widen air war in Libya
Frustrated at their inability to break the military deadlock in Libya and to stop the shelling of civilian areas, NATO commanders are expanding their air war by launching strikes against military-command facilities and other government buildings used by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his top aides.
Chavez says Libya officials discuss peace options
A delegation of Libyan officials is in Venezuela to discuss possible peaceful solutions to the war in the North African country, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday. A vocal opponent of military action by Western governments, Chavez is also a close ally of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and has proposed talks between rebels and the government.
Why Libya? Why now?
Anybody know what we’re doing in Libya? Anybody want to talk about it during the election campaign? We’ve got 560 Canadian Forces deployed there. And we’re in deeper than that. A Canadian, Lt.-Gen. Charles Bouchard, is commanding the whole thing — not just Canada’s troops, but all the other allies, too.
Obama, Erdogan call for Libya and Syria to stop attacks
US President Barack Obama and Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday called for the leaders of Libya and Syria to stop attacking civilian protesters.
2 Western photojournalists killed in Libya
An aid ship on Thursday ferried the bodies of two Western photojournalists out of the besieged Libyan city of Misrata after they were killed and two others working alongside them were wounded while covering battles between rebels and government forces.
John McCain praises ‘heroic’ rebels on visit to Libya
US senator John McCain, one of Congress’s most vocal supporters of military intervention in Libya, said rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi’s troops were his heroes and praised their efforts to overthrow the dictator.
