MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - A group of wounded Libyan soldiers captured by rebels in Misrata said on Saturday they had come under fierce attack from insurgents as the army tried to retreat from the besieged coastal city.
NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian supply ship and its 11-member crew, seized in Libya last month, have been released unharmed, the vessel's operator and the Italian foreign ministry said on Saturday.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain on Friday urged President Barack Obama's administration to recognise the Libyan rebel national council as the country's rightful government and transfer frozen Libyan assets to them.
20110421 presstv The African Union (AU) says that an AU plan for a political solution to the ongoing crisis in Libya has stalled due to a precondition set by Libyan revolutionary forces.
20110421 presstv The UN human rights chief condemns the reported use of cluster bombs by the Libyan regime forces against besieged civilians in the northwestern city of Misratah.
20110421 presstv Seven people have been killed in a NATO airstrike in the Libyan capital as the military alliance faces mounting criticism over the civilian losses in the North African nation.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Tuesday for a ceasefire in the Libyan city of Misrata, saying at least 20 children had been killed in attacks by besieging government forces on rebel-held parts of the city.
The Arusha-based African Court of Justice and Human Rights has summoned the troubled Libyan leader, President Muammar Gaddafi and his regime to appear before the court for violating human rights.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Western powers committed to helping rebels overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi face increasingly difficult choices on the military, economic and diplomatic front as the conflict enters its third month.
RABAT (Reuters) - NATO warplanes launched air strikes on the Libyan capital Tripoli and Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte to the east on Tuesday, state television reported.
TUNIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Battling tanks and snipers in Misrata's streets, the rebels holding the city are exploiting a defender's natural advantage in urban warfare to survive a two-month onslaught by better-armed government troops.
ROME (Reuters) - A meeting of Western and Middle Eastern states in Rome next month will seek ways of enabling oil from Libyan rebel areas to be sold on world markets, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Tuesday.
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco hosted a visit by a Libyan deputy foreign minister on Monday, a rare diplomatic link between Muammar Gaddafi's government and one of the staunch allies of the Western coaltion determined to overthrow him.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata with rockets and artillery on Monday and 17 people were killed in the previous day's shelling of the besieged Libyan city, a rebel spokesman said.
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata with rockets and artillery on Monday and pounded the insurgents' eastern frontline outpost of Ajdabiyah, rebels said.
AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Rebels came under fire on the outskirts of Ajdabiyah on Sunday, hemming them in to their eastern outpost and denting their hopes of pushing west to try to end a stalemate in the Libyan war.
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fired at least 100 Grad rockets into Misrata on Saturday, a rebel spokesman said, in a third day of heavy bombardment of the rebel-held city
France, Britain and the US say it is "unthinkable" for Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to stay in power. The UN should consider a new resolution to address Kadhafi's future, according to France's defence minister.
BERLIN (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Britain voiced optimism on Friday that NATO allies would supply more combat planes for the Libyan mission, but Italy ruled out ordering its planes to open fire.
