The Libyan rebels continue to advance in Tripoli encountering no resistance and are now 3 km from Gaddafi’s bunker.
Sunday, 21 August, 2011
Libya: Libyan rebels are in Green Square in center of Tripoli, less than 3 km from Gaddafi’s bunker
Libya: Little resistance as rebels enter in Tripoli, captured 2 Qaddafi’s sons
Rebels surged into the Libyan capital Sunday night, meeting only sporadic resistance from troops loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and setting off raucous street celebrations by residents hailing the end of his 42 years in power.
The rebel leadership announced that insurgents had captured two of Colonel Qaddafi’s sons, including Seif al-Islam, his heir apparent. The leadership also announced that the elite presidential guard protecting the Libyan leader had surrendered.
Libya: Libyan rebels try to reach capital Tripoli to aid revolt
Libyan rebels battled their way towards Tripoli on Sunday to help fighters inside the city who rose up overnight declaring a final showdown with Muammar Gaddafi.
The Libyan leader dismissed the rebels, fighting since February to topple him, as “rats” and said he would not yield.
In a coordinated revolt that rebel cells had been secretly preparing for months, shooting started on Saturday night across Tripoli moments after Muslim clerics, using the loudspeakers on mosque minarets, called people on to the streets.
Saturday, 20 August, 2011
Libya: Libyan rebels claim to have seized eastern oil terminal Brega
Libyan rebels battling Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s troops along the country’s Mediterranean coast said they have captured all of the strategic eastern port city of Brega, which has repeatedly changed hands in the six-month-old civil war.
Rebel military spokesman Col. Ahmed Bani said fighters gained control Saturday of the industrial section of Brega, after having captured its residential areas last week.
Friday, 19 August, 2011
Libya: Libyan rebels take control of Zlitan, Gaddafi last eastern line of defense destroyed
Libyan freedom fighters have taken control of the city of Zlitan after fierce fighting that has lasted for weeks. Gaddafi’s forces have withdrawn to Wadi Kaam and Khums west of the city on the road to Tripoli.
According to reports coming from the battle field, rebels from Misurata and Zlitan have entered the city center after they liberated Souq Al-Thulatha and have taken control of most of the city. By six o’clock in the evening the whole city was under their control.
Sunday, 14 August, 2011
Libya: Rebels enter in key libyan town of Zawiya
Libyan rebels in pickup trucks mounted with weapons and troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi battled in the streets of Zawiya Sunday, a day after opposition forces pushed from the western mountains into the strategic city in their most dramatic advance in months.
Pro-Gadhafi snipers shot at rebels from an overpass deep in the city, while loud booms echoed and a column of heavy black smoke rose over the outskirts. Dozens of civilians crammed in cars with their belongings fled the city. In one car, four women cried desperately, as their male driver called out:
“There are dead people in our neighborhood”.
Algeria: At least 33 wounded in police station kamikaze attack in the city of Tizi Ouzou, until now no one claimed attack
A suicide bomber attacked a police station in eastern Algeria early Sunday wounding 33 people, including 11 policemen and two Chinese nationals, El Watan daily reported. The attack took place in the city of Tizi Ouzou, some 100 km east of Algiers.
The huge blast was heard all around the city, the report added. The bomber rammed his Toyota Hilux pick-up into the police headquarters building. According to witnesses, shots were heard just before the explosion.