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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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| US Intervention And Syrian Uprising - by Ramzy Baroud |
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US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is quite a feisty diplomat. He shows up unannounced and uninvited at various hot spots in the country, greeted with varying degrees of enthusiasm, and, oftentimes, anger.
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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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| NTC Fighters Come Up Against Heavy Fire in Sirte During Truce |
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Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council, the new rulers of Libya on Saturday came up against heavy sniper shootings fired by former leader Muammar Al Qathafi's forces in his stronghold, the coastal city of Sirte. The NTC replied fire with fire causing casualties on both sides as well as among civilians.
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| Al Qathafi Forces Blamed for Damages at Waha Oil Company |
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Forces loyal to Libya's fugitive leader Muammar Al Qathafi destroyed vehicles and equipment at some fields owned by Libya's Waha Oil company which is owned by Libya's National Oil Corporation, NOC, in a joint venture with American firms ConocoPhillips, Marathon and Amerada Hess. They also destroyed others where security is still too shaky to visit, an engineer with the company said on Sunday.
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| Turkish Airlines Becomes First to Fly Commercial Flight to Tripoli |
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A Turkish Airlines passenger plane landed in Tripoli Saturday noon to become the first international commercial flight to arrive in the Libyan capital since the establishment of a no-fly zone in war-torn Libya in March, a Libyan aviation official said.
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