As the noose tightens around his last strongholds, the elusive Muammar Gaddafi seems to have only two options: hide in the vast Libyan Desert or flee to a neighbouring country.
CAIRO - Protesters set fire to two trucks of police and damaged four vehicles of the police Friday on the outskirts of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, said a journalist of AFP....
The new power in Libya called on Niger Wednesday to prevent the entry into its territory of the former strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who is on the run but would have "very good moral."...
The secretary general of the Arab League, Nabil al-Arabi, will visit Syria on Saturday to submit a proposal to resolve the crisis in the country, after an initial postponement of the visit , said a senior official of the organization....
Two Swedish journalists arrested in early July in Ethiopia have been accused of "terrorist activity," said Wednesday the spokesman of the Ethiopian government Shimeles Kemal....
A Russian aircraft Yak-42 on board with the hockey team of Yaroslavl (300 km northeast of Moscow) crashed on takeoff Wednesday, killing 44 people, a new drama in Russia, this summer theatre of a series of accidents involving Soviet aircraft....
ALGIERS- The crisis in Libya has amplified the security situation in the Sahel region but does not require the extra-regional troops, said Wednesday in Algiers, the Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga to the national radio....
Algiers- Ennahar has obtained two videos made during the taking of Tripoli, a few days ago, by insurgents, showing some Israeli nationals in the company of NTC rebels at the battle of Tripoli....
A large convoy of civilian and military vehicles from Libya, which could carry the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has crossed Agadez, a city in northern Niger, and headed Tuesday to the capital Niamey, according to several sources....
Sick children are at less risk of dying in Switzerland, according to a ranking released Monday by the organization's rights of the Child Save the Children, which puts Chad in the last ranking due to a lack of skilled health personnel....
The retired General David Petraeus was appointed Tuesday head of the Central American intelligence (CIA), succeeding Leon Panetta who became defence secretary, said a journalist from AFP at the White House....
The UK regulator has banned advertising Wednesday as "irreverent" a cartoon showing Jesus the thumbs up and a wink, used by a telephone company to boast about its "miraculous discounts" on the occasion of the last Easter celebrations....
A senior al-Qaeda, Younis al-Mauritania, was captured by the intelligence services in Pakistan with the help of their American counterparts, a new setback to Al-Qaeda which constitutes also a net warming of relations between Islamabad and Washington....
The head of the Lebanese parliament and ally of Hezbollah, Nabih Berri, welcomed the Israeli offensive in 2006 against the Shiite party, calling it an "excellent opportunity" to discredit, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable published by the website Wikileaks....
The Paris Criminal Court Monday allowed former French President Jacques Chirac to be "tried in his absence" in the trial of fictitious jobs in the city of Paris, because of the "medical problems" he argued....
French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said Monday not to fear that al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) takes advantage of the Libyan crisis to strengthen and indicated that steps would be taken to prevent proliferation of weapons in the Sahel....
Morocco has requested assistance from the United States in May 2006 to open a "dialogue" with the Polisario, the Sahrawi independence movement, said a U.S. diplomatic cable published by the WikiLeaks site and taken Monday by the Moroccan press....
Tunisian police in latent conflict with its ministry and with the army since the fall of Ben Ali, Tuesday will organize a sit-in outside the government headquarters in Tunis, said Monday the Union of the security forces....
A dozen people close to Gaddafi including Mansour Daw, head of security brigades entered Sunday in Agadez (Niger North) from Libya, according to a Tuareg source....
ALGIERS - The Libyan crisis created an additional threat in the Sahel, already faced with terrorism and organized crime, with the flow of arms and the mass exodus of nationals from that country, according to a Algerian minister Abdelkader Messahel....
Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi must be tried in Libya for the crimes committed during his 42-year regime, said Sunday the Libyan National Transitional Council representative (CNT) in Britain, Guma al- Gamaty....
The new leaders in Libya, seeking to consolidate their power, have announced their upcoming installation in Tripoli and the formation of a national army, even if the deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi remains on the run and his forces continue to resist in some bastions....
BIR DUFAN (Libya)- About 200 combat pro-CNT vehicles approached Saturday morning very close to Bani Walid, one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds, and returned in the afternoon without have met with any armed opposition, according to an AFP journalist....
"I fought for Gaddafi, I returned back sick and penniless!" said Siliman who deserted the pro-Gaddafi forces, routed, after fighting for four months Libyan insurgents and found his house of straw, on the outskirts of Agadez (northern Niger),...
The Egyptian army has launched a campaign to close smuggling tunnels into the Ghaza Strip, witnesses said Saturday, while Israel has discussed projects of Palestinian militants to attack the Jewish state from the Egyptian territory....
British and Americans have cooperated closely in the 2000s with the intelligence services of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the CIA even delivered up prisoners for interrogation to the Libyan regime, newspapers reported Saturday....
The National Transitional Council (CNT), resulting from the Libyan rebellion, announced Saturday the creation of a security committee to protect Tripoli, under the authority of Ali Tarhouni, already in charge of Finance and Petroleum....
A total of 13 heads of state, 18 heads of government and 18 ministers or senior representatives of 49 countries, as well as officials from eight international organizations participate Thursday in Paris at the International conference on Libya, according to a near-final list provided by the Elysee....
ALGIERS- Algeria must give to the rebels relatives of the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi who entered its territory, whose involvement in crime is proved, said the former Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdel Rahman Chelgham in an interview Friday to the Arabic daily Echorouk....
A son of the former Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Saadi, described the rebels as "brothers" and said he was ready to surrender to "stop the bloodshed" in Libya, in an interview Wednesday evening on Al-Arabiya television channel....
ALGIERS - The daughter of the deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had fled Saturday to Algeria with two of her brothers, her mother and other family members, was to leave Wednesday afternoon the hospital in southern Algeria, where she gave birth, said a government source....
MILAN (Italy) - The boss of Italian oil group Eni expects to restart on October 15 the supply of Libyan gas through the pipeline Greenstream linking Libya to Italy, he said Wednesday....
PARIS - France denied Wednesday any concerns regarding links, highlighted by the press, between the military rebel leader of Tripoli, Abdelhakim Belhadj, and Islamists close to al-Qaeda....
BAGHDAD - At least twenty-eight people were killed and 37 others injured Sunday evening in a suicide bombing at a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad, said an official of the Interior Ministry....
TRIPOLI - The war in Libya is not over and operations are needed to overcome the Libyan regime, recognized the coalition on the ground while the rebels are struggling in the Sirte region....
TRIPOLI - Libyan Rebels, the new masters of Tripoli, signed Sunday a major step towards Sirte (east), the last great bastion of Muammar Gaddafi, but had to suffer a violent attack by loyalist forces in a town in western countries....
BAMAKO - The most radical leaders of the Tuareg rebels in Mali, Ibrahim ag Bahanga, who never fully agreed to disarm, died Friday in an accident in north-east of the country where he was buried the same day according to corroborating sources....
TRIPOLI - The rebels took control Friday of the main border with Tunisia, a new major success in the battle against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi of Libya in the west, when clashes still take place in Tripoli and on the forehead Est....
GENEVA - A second evacuation boat of migrants will leave this Friday Benghazi to Tripoli, said the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva....
TRIPOLI - Libyan rebels took control Tuesday of the headquarters of Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, carrying a heavy blow to the Libyan regime already tottering, but the Libyan leader could not be found. ...
