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| Gunmen Attack Mosque in Libyan Capital |
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None of the National Transitional Council leaders have until now failed to comment on reports by witnesses that a group of more than 200 heavily armed gunmen, Sunday night, attacked a mosque in the northeastern Al-Masri district of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, ransacked the tombs of two imams, and made off with their relics.
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| With Fresh Gains by NTC Fighters, Now Almost Game Over for Fugitive Leader Loyalists |
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Fighting has been unrelenting for one of the two remaining bastions loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Al Qathafi, Sirte. The fighting has been raging for three weeks and National Transitional Council forces are slowly taking control.
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| Russia Criticises NATO-wide Missile Shield Deal |
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Russia has criticised moves by the United States to create a NATO-wide missile shield that will see U.S. anti-missile warships deployed on the Spanish coast, saying it could undermine its security. It said that the agreement with Spain "cannot fail to cause concern,"
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| NTC Chief Says Sirte, Bani Walid to be Liberted Within Days |
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As fighting continues, and the anti-Al Qathafi fighters make progress towards achieving success over the Al Qathafi loyalists in Sirte, National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, has said that both Sirte and Bani Walid would be liberated within days.
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| Cairo Riots that Left 24 Dead 'Dealing Serious Setback to Transition' |
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Fierce clashes that the country's prime minister said have dealt a serious setback to Egypt's transition to civilian rule, erupted on Sunday between Christians protesting a recent attack on a church and the Egyptian military. They left at least 24 people dead and more 272 injured, according to Health Ministry officials.
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| 2012 CAF Africa Cup of Nations: Libya Clinch Dramatic Qualification Against All the Odds |
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Libya secured the most famous of qualifications to next January’s African Cup of Nationsfinals to be held in Gabon and Equitoreal Guinea following a goalless draw with Group C winners Zambia in Chingola. The won qualification as one of the best second-placed teams among the groups.
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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 Is 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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