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Revolutionaries battle for Gharyan

14/08/2011 00:47
Revolutionaries claimed to have liberated a key mountain town that is a strategic gateway on the road to Tripoli, driving out Gaddafi forces today in an intensified western offensive aiming to push toward Tripoli. The town of Gharyan lies at the northern end of the Nafusa Mountains, and...

Revolutionaries advance on Zawiya, battle in Brega

13/08/2011 15:40
Revolutionaries in western Libya advanced north to within 25 km (15 miles) of the coastal city of Zawiyah today after a six-hour battle with autocrat Muammar Gaddafi’s forces. Revolutionary fighters pushed government troops back about 7 km from their previous positions, fixing a front line...

Revolutionaries claim capture of gateway to Tripoli

13/08/2011 15:38
Revolutionaries claimed to have captured a key mountain town that is a strategic gateway on the road to Tripoli, driving out Gaddafi forces today in an intensified western offensive aiming to push toward Tripoli. The town of Gharyan lies at the northern end of the Nafusa Mountains, and...

Isolation and air strikes take a toll in Tripoli

12/08/2011 21:44
The impact of the almost daily air strikes and tightening sanctions take a turn on the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Hassan Moussa, senior doctor at Tripoli’s Central Hospital, said physicians had been forced to improvise treatment for critically injured patients as supplies of oxygen and other...

Revolutionaries take casualties in fight for Brega

12/08/2011 21:43
Revolutionaries on the eastern front of Libya’s war lost 11 men in the past 24 hours fighting to capture the strategic oil terminal and refinery at Brega on the Mediterranean coast, hospital sources said. Sources at a hospital in Ajdabiyah to the northeast said about 50 were wounded yesterday...

Sarkozy: France to stay to the end in Libya

12/08/2011 14:43
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country will stick with the international campaign against Libya’s longtime leader until the end. Sarkozy said today that France’s military effort — central to the nearly five-month-old NATO-led operation — “will remain constant.” He said there is no...

Gaddafi forces still hold Brega oil terminal and refinery, tightening sanctions in Tunisia, and thicker waves of Gaddafi loyalists as revolutionaries are getting closer to Tripoli

12/08/2011 14:38
Muammar Gaddafi’s troops are still in control of the oil terminal and refinery of the strategic eastern port of Brega despite revolutionary advances, a spokesman for the revolutionaries said today, troops on Tunisian border to stop smuggling gasoline, and it's getting harder for...

Libyan rebels say they are in total control of the western city, Bir al-Ghanam

07/08/2011 22:25
Libyan rebels said today they were firmly in control of the town of Bir al-Ghanam, a staging post about 80 km (50 miles) south of Tripoli, rejecting a Gaddafi government assertion they had been pushed back. A small settlement in the desert, Bir al-Ghanam is also the closest point...

Power, petrol shortages in Tripoli frustrates Libyans

07/08/2011 16:26
Power and petrol shortages are afflicting the Libyan capital Tripoli, deepening public frustration as months of conflict with NATO-backed revolutionaries take their toll on the seat of Muammar Gaddafi’s power. Tripoli has suffered blackouts increasingly often in the past few weeks. Many...

Revolutionaries say they are advancing on Brega

06/08/2011 19:45
Revolutionaries today said they had launched a push to capture the coastal oil town of Brega, but were advancing slowly because Muammar Gaddafi’s forces had sown minefields across its approaches. “There’s a big movement on all fronts around Brega, we are attacking from three sides,” said...
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