Libya war: strike against Gaddafi

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.

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

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.

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”.

Wattisham Flying Station in the rolling fields and hedges of Suffolk – green beyond belief for army aircrews returning from Afghanistan here, as they did this weekend. The army insists today’s media visit to film Apache helicopters here has nothing to do with mounting speculation that these aircraft will soon be blowing things up in Libya.

With Apache helicopters poised to attack Libya, MPs warn the Government it does not have a “blank cheque” to fund the fight against Colonel Gaddafi. Channel 4 News looks into upping the tempo.

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.

Defence Minister Nick Harvey rejects French claims that Britain is about to send Apache attack helicopters into Libya – but confirms it is an option being considered by the UK.

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.

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

There was a sense of completion, of the sort journalists rarely get while reporting a story, in meeting Eman al-Obeidi in Qatar. Here she was, free at last from the fear that had stalked her for more than six weeks. She looked composed, sitting there in her blue jeans and hejab. She wore make-up. And she was smiling.

Will the arrest warrants issued for Colonel Gaddafi, his son Seif and brother-in-law Abdullah Sanussi by the International Criminal Court bring justice, or hinder the search for peace? Lindsey Hilsum reports.

The International Criminal Court requests arrest warrants for Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and spy boss Abdullah al-Senussi. But will this bring justice, asks Lindsey Hilsum.

Eman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who burst into a hotel filled with the world’s media to claim she was gang-raped by Gaddafi’s men, tells Channel 4 News what happened to her after that fateful day.

As Colonel Gaddafi claims he is in a place where he cannot “be reached or killed”, Libya accuses Nato of killing 11 Muslim clerics in an airstrike on Brega, in eastern Libya, on 13 May.