Deposed strongman Muammar Gaddafi called on Libyans to turn out in their millions to demonstrate against the country's new rulers, in an audio message broadcast on Thursday on Syria-based Arrai televi

Sirte was rocked by deadly fighting on Friday in what new regime forces said was a final assault on Muammar Gaddafi's besieged hometown, with orders they take it the same day despite stiff resistance.

Fine words from NATO and Libyan new regime fighters about protecting civilians mean little to the furious residents of Sirte, whose homes are destroyed and relatives killed in the battle to capture Mu

Hollywood star Sean Penn on Tuesday flew in to Benghazi - the epicentre of rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi - to assess at first hand the humanitarian needs of the people of Libya.

"This is my first

Since escaping Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison in August, American Matthew VanDyke has either been fighting 'lunatics' loyal to Muammar Gaddafi or giving battlefield tours to foreign journalists.

Libya's new rulers on Thursday stepped up the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi's inner circle, seeking the arrest of one of his sons, Saadi, and announcing the capture of his spokesman Mussa Ibrahim.

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Libyan interim government forces recaptured the airport in Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace, on Thursday, amid mounting concern for civilians trapped inside the besieged city.

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World police body Interpol issued an arrest notice on Thursday for fallen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's playboy son Saadi for alleged crimes while head of the country's football federation.

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Libya's new rulers said on Sunday they have unearthed a mass grave of 1,700 prisoners slain by Muammar Gaddafi's regime in a 1996 uprising, a massacre that helped trigger the revolt that ousted the de

Gunmen loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have crossed the Libyan border from Algeria and attacked revolutionary forces in a town near the frontier, killing six people, officials said on Sunday.