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Syrian government airstrikes rain down on Damascus

Ben Hubbard

Syrian regime and rebels constantly adapt arsenals

Hamza Hendawi, Ben Hubbard

Syria defiantly denies killings, UN council meets

Ben Hubbard

Rebel fighters celebrate, as negotiations resumed between tribal elders and rebel leaders in a mosque at a checkpoint between Tarhouna and Bani Walid, Libya, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011. A large convoy of Libyan soldiers accompanied by Tuareg tribal fighters are reported to have moved towards the capital of neighboring Niger, although it is not clear of Gadhafi family members were among the heavily armed group, according to a report Tuesday from Abdoulaye Harouna, owner of the Agadez Info newspaper. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) (AP)

Report: Libyan fighters say Gadhafi surrounded

Ben Hubbard

Men suspected of being mercenaries for Moammar Gadhafi, are held in a district sports center next to the medina, set up as provisory jail in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Libyan rebels are demanding that Algeria return Moammar Gadhafi's wife and three of his children for trial after they fled, raising tensions between the neighboring countries. Algeria's decision to host members of the Gadhafi clan is an "aggressive act against the Libyan people's wish," said Mahmoud Shammam, information minister in the rebels' interim government.(AP Photo/Francois Mori) (AP)

Libyan rebels round up black Africans

Ben Hubbard

Rebel fighters shoot at what is allegedly Moammar Gadhafi's beach house in Tripoli, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) (AP)

Rebels demand Algeria return Gadhafi family

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

Rebel fighters celebrate as they stand on top of the monument inside the main Moammar Gadhafi compound in Bab Al-Aziziya in Tripoli, LIbya, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. The rebels say they have now taken control of nearly all of Tripoli, but sporadic gunfire could still be heard Wednesday, and Gadhafi loyalists fired shells and assault rifles at fighters who had captured the Libyan leader's personal compound one day earlier. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) (AP)

Libya rebels fight to capture loyalist-held cities

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

Rebel fighters trample on a head of Moammar Gadhafi inside the main compound in Bab al-Aziziya in Tripoli, LIbya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Libyan rebels stormed Moammar Gadhafi's main military compound in Tripoli Tuesday after fierce fighting with forces loyal to his regime that rocked the capital as the longtime leader refused to surrender despite the stunning advances by opposition forces. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) (AP)

Libyan rebels come under fire in Gadhafi compound

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

Moammar Gadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam gestures to troops loyal to his father in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Seif al-Islam, who was earlier reported arrested by Libya's rebels, turned up early Tuesday morning at the hotel where foreign journalists stay in Tripoli, then took reporters in his convoy on a drive through the city. (AP Photo/Imed Lamloum, Pool) (AP)

Fresh fighting erupts between Libya rebels, regime

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

People celebrate the recent news of uprising in Tripoli against Moammar Gadhafi's regime at the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, early Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011. Libyan rebels said they launched their first attack on Tripoli in coordination with NATO late Saturday, and Associated Press reporters heard unusually heavy gunfire and explosions in the capital. The fighting erupted just hours after opposition fighters captured the key city of Zawiya nearby. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini) (AP)

Libyan rebels: Unit protecting Gadhafi surrenders

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub, Dario Lopez

Libyans burn UK, Italy missions after NATO strike

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

Libyan rebel fighters flash the victory sign as they drive past a heavily-shelled building searching for pro-Gadhafi forces in the besieged city of Misrata, Libya, Saturday, April 23, 2011. Government troops retreated to the outskirts of Misrata under rebel fire Saturday and the opposition claimed victory after officials in Tripoli decided to pull back forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi following nearly two months of laying siege to the western city. (AP Photo) (AP)

Misrata rebels say they’ve expelled Gadhafi forces

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

A stranded foreign refugee reacts after being informed that his name is not on the passengers list as a ship evacuating wounded Libyans and refugees fleeing conflict zone is scheduled to leave the port of Misrata, Libya Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Inside the besieged city of Misrata, spent rockets protrude from the pavement of a parking lot, unarmed teenagers prepare plastic crates of Molotov cocktails, and fighters at roadblocks sit inside empty shipping containers outfitted with furniture, carpets and generator-powered TVs and watch Al-Jazeera reports of their war with Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) (AP)

Libyan rebels claim taking post on Tunisian border

Ben Hubbard, Karin Laub

Libyan rebels look towards black smoke rising above the city amidst the sound of shelling, in Ajdabiya, Libya Sunday, April 10, 2011. Libyan rebels said NATO airstrikes on Sunday helped them drive Moammar Gadhafi's forces out of the hard-fought eastern city of Ajdabiya that is the gateway to the opposition's stronghold. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Libyan rebels reject peace while Gadhafi in power

Ben Hubbard

Rebel fighters, one on crutches, are seen near the front line east of Brega, Libya, Sunday, April 3, 2011. The Libyan rebel movement that controls the country's eastern half wants to install a parliamentary democracy across the country once they topple the regime of longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi, according to Abdel-Hafidh Ghoga, vice chairman of the National Provisional Council. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Gadhafi envoy in Europe, seeks end to war

Ben Hubbard, Elena Becatoros

File - Libya's Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa reads a statement to foreign journalists at a hotel in in Tripoli, in this Friday March 18, 2011 file photo. Libya's foreign minister has left Tunisia for London after a two-day visit shrouded in secrecy, Tunisia's official news agency said Wednesday, March 30 2011. Moussa Koussa traveled on an early afternoon flight on an unidentified Swiss carrier from the Tunisian resort of Djerba toward the British capital, the TAP news agency reported. (AP Photo / Jerome Delay, file)

Libyan opposition says it has oil deal with Qatar

Ben Hubbard

Air raids force Gadhafi retreat, rebels seize east

Ben Hubbard, Ryan Lucas

Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , talks during in interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Ocampo says that he is "100 percent" certain that his investigation will lead to charges of crimes against humanity against the Libyan regime of Moammar Gadhafi. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

“100 percent” chance Gadhafi regime will be prosecuted

Ben Hubbard

Libyan protesters shout slogans against Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi during a demonstration at the court square, in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday Feb. 25, 2011. Several tens of thousands held a rally in support of the Tripoli protesters in the main square of Libya's second-largest city, Benghazi, where the revolt began, about 580 miles (940 kilometers) east of the capital along the Mediterranean coast. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

Gadhafi regime arming supporters in Tripoli

Ben Hubbard, Maggie Michael

Unidentified Egyptian army major generals greet people as they walk through Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011. Egypt exploded with joy, tears, and relief after pro-democracy protesters brought down President Hosni Mubarak on Friday with a momentous march on his palaces and state TV. The ruling military pledged Saturday to eventually hand power to an elected civilian government and reassured allies that Egypt will abide by its peace treaty with Israel. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) (AP)

On first day as Egypt’s ruler, army seeks to reassure

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Ben Hubbard

Israeli Prime Minister: Interim Mideast peace deal is possible

Ben Hubbard

Iraq awaits election results, parties claim gains

Ben Hubbard