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| NTC Advance into Sirte Continues; Have Now Entered Sabamiyah |
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National Transitional Council fighters kept pounding at what was known as a strategic building for the former Libyan leader, Muammar Al Qathafi loyalists, the Ouagadougou conference hall at the fugitive leader's hometown of Sirte, and in the afternoon the revolutionaries managed to reach the residential area of Sabamiyah that until Friday had been controlled by Al Qathafi's men.
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| NTC Fighters in Final Push to Capture Sirte |
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Former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's loyalists in his hometown of Sirte still continue to defend fiercely their positions despite being surrounded from all sides by the National Transitional Council forces. They are hemmed into an ever decreasing area, focussed mainly on the Ouagadougou conference centre.
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| 'If Requested, It's for UN to Take Lead in Libya; but NATO Stands Ready to Help' |
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Once NATO has terminated the current operation Unified Protector in Libya, there would not be a major role for the alliance there. If it is requested to do so by the Libyan National Transitional Council, it is for the United Nations to take the lead of the international efforts to assist the new authorities in Libya.
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| Panetta Sounds Out Conditions for NATO to Terminate Mission in Libya |
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At the end of a working lunch with his counterparts from NATO countries in Brussels, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said that there was a pretty clear concensus among alliance ministers on four conditions that need to be met in order to terminate the NATO UN mandated mission in Libya.
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| ‘Al Qathafi Forces Are Fighting for a Lost Cause’ NATO Chief Says |
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In the opinion of NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, after almost eight months, the end of the conflict in Libya that began in mid-February is in sight, and the Al Qathafi forces are fighting for a lost cause.
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| Spain to Host Naval Ships for NATO Missile Shield |
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Spain agreed Wednesday to bolster NATO's planned missile defence system by hosting four US naval ships equipped with interceptors designed to knock out incoming missiles.
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| ‘Differences Among Libyans Not That Great of a Problem’ |
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The current differences among the Libyans would not stand in the way of forming the forthcoming government after fully liberating the country, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the head of the National Transitional Council, NTC, told Al Arabiya.
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| NATO Gen. Sec Hails Libya Operation ‘A Great Success’ |
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At the of the first day of the Defence Ministers meeting in the NATO headquarters in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen greeted a group of journalists from what he called, “the new independent Libya,” including the representatives of The Tripoli Post. He bid us welcome to NATO.
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| NATO Says Has Kept Commitment to UN, Libyan People and Region |
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Through its Operation Unified Protector over Libya, NATO has done what it said it would do, and kept it commitment to the United Nations, to the region and to the Libyan people, NATO general secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday at the organisation’s headquarters, in Brussels.
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| Panetta: NATO Mission in Libya to Continue, Political Process on Hold until Cities are Free |
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The American Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta said Tuesday NATO’s air campaign will continue until Sirte and Ben Walid cities along with areas are taken from Gaddafi followers by rebels.
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| Thousands Flee Sirte to Face Another Crisis |
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Thousands of residents in Sirte took the opportunity presented them by the National Transitional Council of a 48-hour cease-fire in order for residents wanting to leave Sirte to take up their families, load some of their personal belongings on their vehicles and leave the former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi's besieged town.
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| US Senior Senator Urges US to Send Medical Aid to Libya |
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On his return to the United States from a short visit to Libya where he led a four-man delegation of Republican senators, John McCain has called for urgent US medical aid to help thousands wounded in Libya.
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| Summary of the American and International Press on the Libyan Revolution - Morgan Strong |
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Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council overran the hometown of ousted leader Muammar Al Qathafi on Tuesday after battling for days to take hold of the strategic coastal city.
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| Misurati Named as Libya's New Defence Minister in Interim Cabinet Named Sunday |
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Salem Jouha, reportedly a military commander from Misurata is to be assigned the ministry of defence in the new Libya interim government it has emerged. He has reportedly been named for the portfolio Sunday by Mahmoud Jibril, the intrim prime minister and chairman of the National Transitional Council, who also named other members of the cabinet.
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| 'NTC Fighters Making Progress East of Sirte' |
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National Transitional Council fighters returning from the front east of Sirte on Sunday are reported telling journalists that had captured a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city that was sheltering many Al Qathafi loyalists supporters.
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