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WASHINGTON -- The NATO air campaign that was instrumental in helping the rebels advance into Tripoli is hamstrung in many ways now that the fighting has turned into complex house-to-house [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED TRIPOLI, Libya -- For this week's sermon at the Libyan capital's main Protestant church, the Rev. Hamdy Daoud chose to talk about the trial of Hosni Mubarak. ''You [...]

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has responded to intensified NATO bombing of the Libyan capital by seeking sanctuary at night in hospitals he knows will not be bombed, according [...]

OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA -- Just after midnight on Sunday, an allied Mirage 2000 fighter jet prowling the Libyan coastline attacked a Libyan missile patrol boat that military officials said [...]

TRIPOLI, Libya -- In the heaviest attack yet on the capital since the start of the two-month-old NATO bombing campaign, alliance aircraft struck at least 15 targets in central Tripoli [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson The Libyan capital withstood the heaviest bombardment yet from NATO aircraft early Tuesday morning, as explosions rocked the area around Col. Muammar Qaddafi's compound. The strikes - [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson NATO aircraft struck eight Libyan warships overnight Thursday, just hours after President Obama capped a week of increasing international pressure with a vow that Libyan leader Col. [...]

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Taken at face value, the official Libyan account of an overnight NATO bombing attack on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's leadership compound in the heart of Tripoli was wrenching [...]

Byline: Jim Michaels, USA TODAY WASHINGTON --The United States recently stepped up pressure on the regime of Moammar Gadhafi with drone strikes and a decision to send non-lethal supplies to [...]

AJDABIYA, Libya -- Large numbers of rebel fighters fled this city on Sunday after a rocket and artillery attack by government forces who were reportedly on the western outskirts. Scores [...]

WASHINGTON -- With the United States limiting itself to a supporting role in the conflict in Libya, fissures opened among NATO allies on Tuesday over the scope and intensity of [...]

DOHA, Qatar -- Friendly to Iran even as it serves as a base for the American military, Qatar has long had one of the most creative foreign policies in this [...]

WASHINGTON -- Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, according to [...]

Byline: Oren Dorell A retreat by Libyan rebels almost two weeks into a Western air campaign leaves NATO with a dilemma that could shatter its coalition or leave a bitter [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's [...]

The United States, its allies and Libyan rebels all want to see Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi out of power and support United Nations-mandated military action to keep him from slaughtering innocent [...]

TRIPOLI, Libya -- The official government tour was supposed to show Western journalists the suffering of people who had been driven from their homes by the allied bombing in the [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama defended the American-led military assault in Libya on Monday, saying it was in the national interest of the United States to stop a potential massacre that [...]

Byline: Linda Feldmann In a nationally televised address Monday evening, President Obama defended the US's role in military operations in Libya, calling it limited yet successful. And he asserted that [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson The Libyan military sought to project an air of confidence around the rebel-held enclave of Misratah on Monday, falsely claiming victory in the western city even as [...]

Byline: Scott Peterson As criticism of the scope of allied air attacks on Libya rises from South Africa to Russia, Libyan officials Tuesday took journalists to a recent target: a [...]

NATO planes pound Libyan government weapons depots southeast of the town of Zintan, in a sign of widening conflict in the Western Mountains region as rebels battle to unseat Muammar [...]