Search results for ‘Tripoli’

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  • 14 Jun 2011

    “NATO appears to have run out of targets in Tripoli, but the Brother Leader is still here, playing chess with his friend Kirsan Illuyzhinov, the President of the World Chess Federation,a man who claims to have been briefly abducted by space aliens in 1997.”

  • 14 Jun 2011

    The head of the Royal Navy warns the fleet will not be able to continue its current scale of operations beyond the summer, as the US House of Representatives votes to prohibit funding of the conflict.

  • 13 Jun 2011

    The difficulty of untangling stories of bombing in Tripoli – from our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, in Tripoli.

  • 11 Jun 2011

    As Libyans in Britain anxiously watch events in their homeland, a few choose to return and fight with the rebels. Jane Deith has been talking to one of them.

  • 9 Jun 2011

    Iranian oil on troubled Arab waters

    Jon Snow on the unexpected outmanoeuvring of Saudi Arabia by Iran at the oil producers’ forum OPEC.

  • 9 Jun 2011

    The International Criminal Court says it has found evidence that the Libyan dictator has been using rape to punish female opponents.

  • 8 Jun 2011

    NATO’s call to ramp up the bombing campaign in Libya falls on deaf ears, as thousands of Colonel Gaddafi’s troops attack the rebel-held city of Misrata.

  • 6 Jun 2011

    Exclusive: As the woman who became the face of Libya’s rebel struggle heads to the US, Channel 4 News reveals how – after her alleged rape by Gaddafi troops – she suffered “outrageously” in Qatar.

  • 3 Jun 2011

    The Libyan woman who grabbed the world’s attention after accusing Gaddafi’s forces of raping her is forcibly returned to Benghazi. She had escaped to Qatar and was seeking asylum to a third country.

  • 31 May 2011

    Colonel Gaddafi calls for a truce as a flood of defections threatens to fatally weaken his grip on power.

  • 28 May 2011

    NATO jets strike a command centre where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sometimes lives, as a spokesman says it is a message to those attacking civilians that they can no longer hide behind high walls.

  • 27 May 2011

    Britain steps up its role in Libya by agreeing to deploy four attack helicopters amid claims that the Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi is increasingly paranoid and “on the run”.

  • 24 May 2011

    Between 12 and 20 heavy explosions rock Tripoli in one of the most intensive nights of bombing yet. Libyan authorities say three people have been killed and 150 wounded in the attack.

  • 20 May 2011

    Libyan police desperately tried to silence Eman al-Obeidi when she told journalists Gaddafi’s men had raped her. Here, she tells Jonathan Miller the full story and what happened to her afterwards.

  • 18 May 2011

    Muammar Gaddafi’s wife and daughter crossed over the Libyan border into Tunisia several days ago, according to reports.