Fighters loyal to deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are now holding out in just two small pockets of his home town Sirte on Wednesday, government commanders said after making gains overnight.
Angelina Jolie is in Libya Wednesday, where she is meeting with refugees of the ongoing Libyan revolution, as well as the county's new, post-Moammar Gadhafi leadership.
Actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie was in Libya on Tuesday for a visit to help agencies bringing aid to Libyans in Tripoli and Misrata, she said in a statement provided to Reuters.
The chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) made a highly symbolic visit to the city of Sirte on Tuesday where government forces are trying to crush the last pockets of resistance from supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, one of the last bastions of support for the fugitive leader, came under heavy shelling by revolutionary fighters Saturday.
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Snipers hiding in a mosque and Muammar Gaddafi's favourite summit venue held back Libyan government forces trying to capture his hometown on Thursday, making forecasts of a quick end to the battle look premature.
Volunteers in the embattled city of Sirte are currently caring for 500 ostriches once owned by the Libyan dictator that were left without food or water when loyalists fled the city.
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Libya's top oil body is pursuing international oil firms for bills worth around $6 billion that were left unpaid this year due to U.N. sanctions imposed in March, a source in the National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters this week.
Pick-up trucks became a common sight in battle, and could be seen as the symbol of the popular anti-Gadhafi residence. Mechanics attached cannons and rocket launchers to flatbeds and cars carries troops across the country.
Turkish Prime Tayyip Erdogan visited South Africa on Tuesday, the latest stop in a diplomatic drive into the resource-rich continent whose attention is increasingly fixed on emerging market relationships rather than old commercial ties to Europe.
Muammar Gaddafi's former prime minister said on Tuesday he believed the deposed leader was still in Libya and would carry on fighting the country's new leaders until the end.
Libya's National Transition Council said they are ready to declare victory after eight months of revolution, once they have captured the city of Sirte.
Intense battle continued in Sirte, the hometown of fallen leader Moammar Gadhafi, resulting in the death of eight fighters of Libya' s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC). Another 39 were wounded.
A Red Cross convoy carrying aid to relieve a humanitarian crisis in Libya's besieged city of Sirte had to turn back on Monday because Libyan interim government forces unleashed a barrage of fire.
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