MISURATA, Libya — Libyan government officials said late Friday that they would stop the fighting in the besieged port city of Misurata because of NATO airstrikes, several hours before NATO bombs ...

Gaddafi presses siege of Misurata as civilians beg NATO to prevent massacre April 16, 2011 More than 14 years ago Summary By Simon Denyer ...

Misurata, 125 miles (200km) east of the capital Tripoli, is the last rebel bastion in western Libya. Gaddafi's forces appear bent on seizing the city and crucially its port, which some analysts ...

“Misurata made Libya’s revolution famous all over the world,” said a thankful Khereia Awayed, one of a group of women from a Tripoli-area charity snapping photos in front of a shelled ...

Heavy fighting has raged anew in Misurata, leaving at least 25 people killed and at least 71 others critically injured as forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi gave up more ground inside Libya’s third ...

Khalid, a resident of Misurata, spoke to Al Jazeera’s Sami Zeidan about who is in control after clashes and a standoff with an army unit. He said security forces have been driven out of the city.

Misurata doctor counting the cost of Gaddafi's cluster bombs Not content with deploying tanks, rockets, and snipers, Colonel Gaddafi has now taken to using cluster bombs, writes Ben Farmer in ...

Halah al-Misrati, a former Libyan state TV anchorwoman, has appeared on a video posted on YouTube denying earlier official reports that she was dead in her detention cell. “Today’s date is 19 ...