Libya: Beginning of an end?

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

Libyan people celebrate near a court house in Benghazi, as rebels fought their way into Tripoli. Rebels say they are now in control of most of Tripoli, a sprawling coastal city of two million people on the Mediterranean Sea, but it was not clear whether Muammar Gaddafi was still in the Libyan capital.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

People celebrate what they believe is the nearly end of the military conflict against Gaddafi's regime at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya. World leaders said the end is near for Muammar Gaddafi's regime and began looking at Libya's future without the man who has held power there for 42 years.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

A Libyan vendor displays his merchandise at Freedom square in Benghazi, Libya. Tripoli residents were jubilant yet fearful, asking for weapons to join rebels in their cat-and-mouse war with loyalists who have besieged the city with snipers and drive-by shootings. The capital's battle-scarred streets were all but empty, the day after rebels made a lightning advance on the capital to drive out defiant leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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Libyans wave Kingdom of Libya flags near the court house in Benghazi as they celebrate the entry of rebel fighters into Tripoli.

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Libyan volunteers carry weapons near the court house in Benghazi as they prepare to go to Tripoli to fight Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

A rebel fighter run across the street near Muammar Gaddafi's main compound in the Bab al-Aziziya district in Tripoli, Libya. Fresh fighting erupted in Tripoli on Tuesday hours after Muammar Gaddafi's son turned up free to thwart Libyan rebel claims he had been captured, a move that seems to have energized forces still loyal to the embattled regime.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

Libyan women cheer in Tripoli. Libyan rebels declared the Gaddafi era over after storming Tripoli, but one of the veteran strongman's sons insisted the battle was far from done as he defiantly refuted reports of his arrest.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

A rebel fighter is pictured in Tripoli. Libyan rebels declared the Gaddafi era over after storming Tripoli, but one of the veteran strongman's sons insisted the battle was far from done as he defiantly refuted reports of his arrest.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

Saif al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, gestures as he talks to reporters in Tripoli. Saif told journalists that Libya, which has been largely overrun in the past 24 hours by rebel forces seeking to topple his father, was in fact in government hands and that Muammar Gaddafi was safe.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

People celebrate what they believe is the nearly end of the military conflict against Gaddafi's regime at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

Libyan rebels stand in front of a freshly painted wall with the colours of Libya's old flag, adopted by the opposition forces fighting soldiers loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi, on the outskirts of Tripoli as they protect the entrances and exits of the area east of the Libyan capital.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

Volunteers loyal to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi pause after Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam spoke to them in Tripoli, Libya. Saif al-Islam, who was earlier reported arrested by Libya's rebels, turned up at the hotel where foreign journalists stay in Tripoli, then took reporters in his convoy on a drive through the city.

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Updated on Aug 24, 2011 01:19 am IST

A rebel fighter holds the identification card of a pro-Gaddafi soldier after they were captured in Tripoli, Libya. Rebels say they control most of Tripoli, but they faced pockets of fierce resistance from regime loyalists firing mortars and anti-aircraft guns.

Libya: Beginning of an end?

Libyans wave Kingdom of Libya flags near the court house in Benghazi as they celebrate the entry of rebel fighters into Tripoli.

Libyan volunteers carry weapons near the court house in Benghazi as they prepare to go to Tripoli to fight Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

Libyan women cheer in Tripoli. Libyan rebels declared the Gaddafi era over after storming Tripoli, but one of the veteran strongman's sons insisted the battle was far from done as he defiantly refuted reports of his arrest.

A rebel fighter is pictured in Tripoli. Libyan rebels declared the Gaddafi era over after storming Tripoli, but one of the veteran strongman's sons insisted the battle was far from done as he defiantly refuted reports of his arrest.

People celebrate what they believe is the nearly end of the military conflict against Gaddafi's regime at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya.

Libyan rebels stand in front of a freshly painted wall with the colours of Libya's old flag, adopted by the opposition forces fighting soldiers loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi, on the outskirts of Tripoli as they protect the entrances and exits of the area east of the Libyan capital.

A rebel fighter holds the identification card of a pro-Gaddafi soldier after they were captured in Tripoli, Libya. Rebels say they control most of Tripoli, but they faced pockets of fierce resistance from regime loyalists firing mortars and anti-aircraft guns.

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