The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to ...

It's been a day of intensified fighting in Libya, with forces loyal to Col Gaddafi mounting strong counter-attacks against rebel-controlled areas. As things stand, there appears to be a stalemate, ...

The toppling of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi — at the hands of Libyan rebels aided by U.S. and NATO air power — has led to highly unstable governance as the country’s tribes have vied ...

Wolfowitz would prefer it if Westerners adopted the word that the Libyan rebels have chosen to describe their cause. This isn’t because civil war is an inaccurate description of what is happening.

Protesters returned to the streets of Tripoli after Friday prayers, and while Libyan security forces replied with tear gas, there was less evidence of deadly force than in recent weeks. Outside the ...

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1848 The Guardian's Martin Chulov tweets: "Motivation no problem with east #libya rebels. Discipline a different matter. Anti-aircraft weapons fired randomly all day." 1840 More quotes are ...

where they were turned over to Libyan rebels. (This circuitous route was chosen to avoid the U.S. being in violation of a UN embargo against weapons deliveries to Libya.) As the fighting in ...

Libya’s parliament orders military operations ... 2011 popular uprising that toppled late Muammar Gaddafi. The former rebels refuse to lay down arms despite efforts by the central government ...

The Libyan rebels have come together under the umbrella of Libya Transitional Council (TNC) under the leadership of Mahmoud Jibril and are headquartered in Benghazi. The United States, and the ...

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