NATO has agreed to take over the job of enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya from the U.S.-led coalition.
CNN reported that under the agreement NATO will close the airspace for all flights except humanitarian flights.
However, Los Angeles Times reported that NATO was not able to agree on whether the alliance should also shoulder the responsibility of taking down Gaddafi's tanks and other establishments which he has employed to handle the rebels. The coalition will mainly target Gaddafi's forces.
While the NATO continues to wrangle over the aforesaid issue, UAE stepped in to support the alliance as it committed 12 aircrafts to assist the enforcement of a no-fly zone, NY Times reported.
Jan Techau, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Brussels and a former analyst at the NATO Defense College speaking about the Arab nations' response to the Libyan conflict, told Bloomberg : Arab leaders want to be on the right side of history and don't want to be seen backing a maniac dictator who's killing his own people.
As international involvement in Libya to escalate the process of change intensifies as the toll on Libyan population is compounding with the conflict having displaced many people.
Here is a slideshow on the Libyan conflict from a human angle showcasing myriad emotions involving fear, triumph, bravado and of course, grief:
A mourner reacts next to the grave of a rebel killed by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Ajdabiyah, during his funeral in Benghazi March 23, 2011.
ReutersCaptured soldiers from forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi are presented by rebels following clashes for control over the centre of the city of Zawiyah, 50 km (31 miles) west of the capital Tripoli.ReutersMembers of the influential Libyan Warfallah tribe sit by the house of Fethi Boubaker, who the tribe say was killed during coalition air strikes, on the outskirts of Bani Walid.ReutersA rebel fighter takes a break in front of a destroyed tank along the Benghazi-Ajdabiyah road, near Ajdabiyah.ReutersA sister of Fethi Boubaker, who the Libyan Warfallah tribe loyal to Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi say was killed during coalition air strikes, raises a rifle inside Boubaker's house on the outskirts of Bani Walid, about 130 km (81 miles) southeast of the capital Tripoli.ReutersA protester sits in a makeshift shelter on a street during an anti-Gaddafi demonstration in Benghazi.ReutersA rebel fighter whose brother was severely wounded by an explosion weeps just outside Ajdabiyah, March 21, 2011. A wave of air strikes on Monday hit Gaddafi's troops around Ajdabiyah, a strategic town in the barren, scrub of eastern Libya that rebels aim to retake and where their fighters said they need more help to take the battle to the enemy.ReutersRebel fighter points his gun at suspected Gaddafi supporter as other rebels try to protect suspected supporter, on road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah, near Ajdabiyah.ReutersA woman rebel fighter supporter shoots an AK-47 rifle as she reacts to the news of the withdrawal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces from Benghazi.ReutersBoys hold toy guns during a protest by supporters of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi at Green Square in Tripoli.ReutersA supporter of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi stands on a building, destroyed in what the government said was a western missile attack, inside Bab Al-Aziziyah.ReutersA Libyan government soldier displays a tattoo of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at the west gate of town Ajdabiyah.
ReutersA Spanish girl identified as Panchi (L) is reunited with her father after he arrived from Tripoli to Madrid's Barajas airport February 23, 2011. Spanish oil company Repsol said on Wednesday it is evacuating its staff from Libya with a plane carrying 131 passengers, including 88 Repsol staff, and other passengers including three nuns and the trainer for the Spanish five-a-side football team, a spokesman for the oil company said.ReutersA Bangladeshi evacuee holds his compatriot's passport at a refugees camp near the Libyan and Tunisian border crossing of Ras Jdir, after fleeing unrest in Libya.ReutersRebel fighters pray during a battle near Ras Lanuf.Reuters
