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Ethnic group demands say in new Libyan government

Last updated Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 5:12pm

TRIPOLI, Libya — Hundreds of people pushed their way to the door of the Libyan prime minister’s office on Sunday as they demanded representation in government for the Amazigh, one of the country’s largest ethnic minorities.

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Libya says Gadhafi son to be tried at home

Rami Al-Shaheibi The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 9:16am

ZINTAN, Libya -- Moammar Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent will be tried in Libya and not handed over to the International Criminal Court even though the country's new rulers have yet to set up a justice system, the information minister said on Sunday.

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NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks to reporters in Tripoli, Libya, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. NATO's top official is praising the Libyans for their "courage, determination and sacrifice" to oust dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and says they have transformed Libya and "helped change the region." Fogh Rasmussen is in Tripoli to mark the end of the alliance's 7-month campaign over Libya, which played a key role in ousting Gadhafi. The NATO mission ends at midnight Monday Libyan time (2200 GMT, 6 p.m. EDT). (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany)

NATO chief: Libyans have helped change Mideast

Karin Laub The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 12:19pm

TRIPOLI, Libya -- NATO's top official is praising the Libyans for their "courage, determination and sacrifice" to oust dictator Moammar Gadhafi, and says they have transformed Libya and "helped change the region."

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(DAVID SPERRY/The Associated Press) A Libyan child waves the victory sign while wearing a wig and holding a pre-Gadhafi flag during a celebration after transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil declared the liberation of Libya in Benghazi Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Libya’s transitional leader declared his country’s liberation Sunday after an 8-month civil war and set out plans for the future with an Islamist tone. The announcement was clouded, however, by international pressure to explain how ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi had been captured alive days earlier, then ended up dead from a gunshot to his head shortly afterward.

Qatar hosts Libyan conference after Gadhafi death

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 7:21am

DOHA, Qatar — Libya’s interim leader is in Qatar for the first international planning conference on his country since the death of Moammar Gadhafi.

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(SERGEY PONOMAREV/The Associated Press)In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011 file photo, rebel fighters trample on a head of Moammar Gadhafi inside the main compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, Libya. Misrata’s fighters emerged from weeks of punishing street fighting during the bloody siege of their hometown battle-hardened and instilled with a searing hatred for Moammar Gadhafi. In the end, they extracted their revenge, putting the dictator’s body and that of his son on display as a trophy. For Misratans, it was a fitting end to the civil war, and a clear signal that they are a force to be reckoned with in post-Gadhafi Libya.

Gadhafi buried in unmarked grave at dawn

Karin Laub, Rami Al-Shaheibi The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 10:18am

MISRATA, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi was buried at dawn Tuesday in an unmarked grave in a modest Islamic ceremony, closing the book on his nearly 42-year rule of Libya and the eight-month civil war to oust him.

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(EVAN VUCCI/The Associated Press) President Barack Obama leaves after speaking in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, where he declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year’s end.

Obama’s foreign successes may help little in 2012

Charles Babington The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 4:22pm

WASHINGTON — By declaring the Iraq war over, President Barack Obama scored what his allies see as a fourth big foreign policy success in six months, starting with Osama bin Laden’s killing.

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This image made available by the Al Jazeera television channel, claims to show former Libyan leader Moammer Gadhafi, after he was killed at an undisclosed location in Libya, Thursday Oct. 20, 2011. Libya's information minister said Moammar Gadhafi was killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months after the regime fell. (AP Photo/Al Jazeera)

Libya officials: Gadhafi captured, possibly killed

Christopher Gillette The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 11:14am

SIRTE, Libya — Libya's information minister said Moammar Gadhafi was killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months after the regime fell. Amid the fighting, a NATO airstrike blasted a fleeing convoy that fighters said was carrying Gadhafi.

The head of Libya's interim government did not immediately confirm Gadhafi's capture or death, and many officials said they were still trying to verify what happened.

Al-Jazeera TV showed footage of a man resembling Gadhafi lying dead or severely wounded, bleeding from the head and stripped to the waist as fighters rolled him over on the pavement.

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(MANU BRABO/The Associated Press) Matthew VanDyke, a writer and filmmaker from Baltimore, Md. who has joined with revolutionary fighters, is seen on the front line in Sirte, Libya, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. VanDyke was freed from Libya’s most notorious prison in August during the turmoil of the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi after his capture in March by government soldiers.

Relatives: US man joins rebel fighters in Libya

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 5:12pm

BALTIMORE — Relatives and government officials say they are concerned about an American who spent nearly six months in a Libyan prison and now has joined the rebels fighting against forces loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.

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(BELA SZANDELSZKY/The Associated Press) Libyan revolutionary fighters look out from their trench during an attack against pro-Gadhafi forces in Sirte, Libya, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011. Rebel forces have besieged Sirte since mid September, but have not managed to penetrate the heart of the city because of fierce resistance from loyalists inside the home town of Libya’s ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Libyans claim gains in Gadhafi hometown offensive

Christopher Gillette, Kim Gamel The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 5:15pm

SIRTE, Libya — Libyan revolutionary forces claimed to have captured parts of a sprawling convention center that loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi have used as their main base in the ousted leader’s hometown and were shelling the city to try to rout snipers from rooftops in their offensive aimed at crushing this key bastion of the old regime.

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(RAMI RAKI/The Associated Press) With new Libyan flags in the background, Libyan minister of oil and finance, Ali al-Tarhouni, center talks to supporters after his arrival in the desert city of Sabha, Libya Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011. Libya’s transitional government has delivered 20 million dinars ($16 million) to this remote southern city beset by fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi, hoping to bolster support for revolutionary forces. The 20 boxes of 20-dinar notes, each weighing 116 pounds (78 kilograms), were delivered to the Sabha central bank.

Libya’s new rulers believe Gadhafi hiding in south

Kim Gamel The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 9:36am

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s new rulers believe Moammar Gadhafi may be hiding in the southern desert, possibly in a vast area near the Algerian border, under the protection of ethnic Tuareg fighters, an official said Wednesday.

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(ABDEL MAGID AL-FERGANY/The Associated Press) People hold bone fragments at the site which is thought to be a possible mass grave near to Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, where some 1,270 inmates are thought to have been killed by the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in a 1996 prison massacre. Various bones have been found scattered over the cactus-covered desert field near to the prison, after information was given by a captured former security guard who revealed its location, according to an announcement on Sunday by Dr. Ibrahim Abu Sahima of the government committee overseeing the search for victims of the former regime. Officials with the Libyan Transitional Council are expected to ask for international assistance in identifying the remains.

Libyans find grave said to hold remains of 1,200

Kim Gamel The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:17am

TRIPOLI, Libya — A bone wrapped with rope and skull fragments scattered over a cactus-covered desert field are grim testament to a 1996 massacre of more than 1,200 prisoners by Moammar Gadhafi’s regime.

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Syrian activists flocking to Libya

Hannah Allam McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 2:53pm

BENGHAZI, Libya -- Syrian activists fleeing persecution for taking part in the 6-month-old revolt against their government are flocking to Libya, where they face no visa requirements and can find work easily because of the exodus of foreign laborers during the uprising against Moammar Gadhafi.

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(ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI/The Associated Press) Former rebel fighters wave a pre-Gadhafi flag at the northern gate of Bani Walid, as smokes raise from the town, Libya, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. Libyan fighters are streaming into Bani Walid, one of the remaining bastions of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi, in a new fierce push. The revolutionary forces, in dozens of pickup trucks mounted with heavy weapons, are making their way from the north into the town center.

Frustration, zeal mix in siege of Gadhafi bastion

Hadeel Al-Shalchi The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 5:30pm

WADI DINAR, Libya — The rockets and mortars rained down on the position where the revolutionaries had retreated on the outskirts of the mountainous stronghold of Moammar Gadhafi’s loyalists. So, in a fury, the fighters charged wild and unorganized Sunday back into the city for yet another day of fighting.

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A man walks next to traces of the battles in Tripoli Street, the center of fighting between forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and rebels in downtown Misrata, Libya. Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, "disappearances" and other war crimes that they said they found. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Libyan rebels accuse pro-Gadhafi forces of holding ‘human shields’

Roy Gutman McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 7:34pm

BENGHAZI, Libya — Libyan rebels have broken off their assault on a key city south of Tripoli after discovering that forces loyal to ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi there had placed Russian-made Grad rockets and mortars on the roofs of houses filled with civilians, the rebels’ military spokesman said Sunday.

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Libya volunteers set up the red carpet for the arrival of Libyan Transitional National Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at Metiga airport in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Chief of Libya's ex-rebels arrives in capital

Ben Hubbard, Hadeel Al-Shalchi The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 6:16pm

TRIPOLI, Libya — The chief of Libya’s former rebels arrived in Tripoli on Saturday, greeted by a boisterous red carpet ceremony meant to show he’s taking charge of the interim government replacing the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi.

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