Among the crumbling remains of the city Muammar Gaddafi once favored as the “capital of Africa”, frustration is simmering. Four months after Libya's leader met his end in his hometown Sirte, the fishing village he turned into a model city lies in (...)
Fighters loyal to deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are now holding out in just two small pockets of his home town Sirte Wednesday, government commanders said after making gains overnight.
Fighters from the interim Libyan government's volunteer (...)
Libyan transitional government forces said on Sunday they had captured the university and a conference centre in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, but were holding off an assault on the main square to let civilians escape.
Taking Sirte would (...)
Many residents of Sirte, Muammar Gaddafi's birth-place, blame Libya's new rulers and their Western allies for the death and destruction unleashed on their city by weeks of fighting.
Most are reluctant to talk openly about their allegiances, for (...)
Libya's interim rulers said they had captured one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds deep in the Sahara desert, finding a secret stock of chemical weapons, and had largely taken control of another.
Poorly-organised fighters with the National (...)
