Gary Gibbon
Hague’s Libya move less than it appears
Is there less than meets the eye to William Hague’s statement on recognising the NTC in Libya as the government, asks our Political Editor.
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Inside Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from inside Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound, breached by rebel fighters.
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The war is not over in Tripoli yet
Alex Thomson reports from one of the main roads into Tripoli, where some areas are peaceful but there are still pockets of fierce fighting.
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Where is Gaddafi? 'Gone with the wind'
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli, where she says Libyans are “wild with happiness” six months after the revolution began.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Whitehall prays Gaddafi doesn’t leave too soon
Whitehall officials scrabble to prepare for a post-Gaddafi Libya as rebels say they have succeeded in cutting off Tripoli’s lifeline.
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Libya operations – a modest cost?
The claim “What I can say is that the costs should be modest compared to some other operations like Afghanistan, and the Ministry of Defence’s initial view is that this will be in the order of the tens of millions not the hundreds of millions of pounds.”
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Oppressed Berber people hope for the fall of Gaddafi
“But will Colonel Gaddafi be gone by then? Everyone has their own theories. It’ll be over by Ramadan. Nato has to end it by August. He won’t be here at the end of the year. And then the vague ones. His days are numbered. It’s only a matter of time.”
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Libyan public opinion awaits a sign
Our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, seeks a way to discover public opinion in Libya.
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Libya: Getting the wobbles
“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.”
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The fog of war in Gaddafi's Libya
The difficulty of untangling stories of bombing in Tripoli – from our International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, in Tripoli.
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Zawiyah out of bounds on the road to Gaddafi's Tripoli
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs from Tripoli as the government presents pro-Gadaffi unity to journalists while embattled Zawiya is out of bounds.
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Gary Gibbon
Down to business: Obama holds talks with Cameron and Miliband
“Like David Cameron, Ed Miliband wants to show affinity with the President who outscores all-comers in British popularity ratings.”
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Eman al-Obeidi's life-saving message
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.
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No escape from Misrata for the dying
Alex Thomson reports from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, where a rescue ship, the Red Star, is being prevented from docking by the Libyan military.
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Awaiting safe passage from Misrata's bloody war
Beyond the horizon, 12 miles out at anchor, lies the Red Star ferry on charter to the International Organisation for Migration. Her 16 hour voyage from Benghazi to Misrata now an odyssey several days long as she waits offshore for notice that it is safe to dock.