A week of fighting between rival tribes deep in Libya's south has killed 147 people, the government said on Saturday, but it said it had brokered a fresh ceasefire agreement between the two sides.
Three days of clashes between rival militias in southern Libya spread to the centre of the country's fourth largest city on Tuesday despite the deployment of army troops trying to quell the violence which has so far killed nearly 50 people.
NATO's triumphant, 7-month air campaign against Libya has ended, setting the country on the path to a democratic transition less than two weeks after the capture and killing of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Libyan revolutionary forces fought building by building on Wednesday against the final pocket of resistance in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown - the last major city in Libya to have been under the control of forces loyal to the fugitive leader.
Revolutionary forces celebrated the capture of one Muammar Gaddafi stronghold and closed in Tuesday on the last holdouts in the fugitive leader's hometown of Sirte, putting total victory in their eight-month uprising just a few city blocks away.
Libyan government forces have captured landmark buildings in a thrust towards the centre of Muammar Gaddafi's hometown Sirte, but came under a fierce counter attack which inflicted dozens of casualties.
A military unit allied to Libya's new rulers said on Wednesday it had discovered a mass grave in Tripoli containing the bodies of more than 200 people who died in the chaos surrounding the rebel assault that ousted Mummar Gaddafi.
Libyan interim government forces have intensified their assault on Sirte, unleashing barrages of tank, artillery and anti-aircraft fire and capturing a district in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown from his supporters.
Aid workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have brought medical supplies into ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's besieged hometown of Sirte as fears grew that a humanitarian disaster was unfolding there.
A Libyan commander leading the attack on Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte said on Tuesday he was in talks with elders inside the city about a truce, but the head of another anti-Gaddafi unit rejected negotiations.
Libyan provisional government forces backed by NATO warplanes raced through the eastern outskirts of Sirte on Monday, closing in on Muammar Gaddafi loyalists holed up in one of the last two bastions of the deposed leader.
Libya's new rulers have revealed a grave site they said contained the bodies of more than 1270 people killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at Tripoli's Abu Salim prison.
Libyan interim government forces fled on Sunday in a chaotic retreat from the town of Bani Walid, after failing in yet another attempt to storm the final bastions of loyalists of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The voice of Muammar Gaddafi boomed out from his hiding place on Thursday, denying he had fled Libya and cursing as rats and stray dogs those whose efforts to start governing in his place are being frustrated by his die-hard followers.
Libyan forces have massed outside a pro-Gaddafi desert town that has refused to surrender, building a field hospital in preparation for a possible last stand.
Libyan forces have failed to convince Muammar Gaddafi loyalists to give up one of their last strongholds without a fight, raising the prospect of an assault on the town of Bani Walid.
Leaders of the Libyan uprising that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi sit down with world powers in Paris on Thursday to map out the country's rebuilding, 42 years to the day after the former strongman seized power in a coup.
Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, has promised continued resistance to Libyan forces which ousted his father from Tripoli, and urged Libyans to wage a war of attrition against the National Transitional Council and its NATO backers.
Libya's interim leader has given forces loyal to deposed ruler Muammar Gaddafi a four-day deadline to surrender towns they still control or face a bloody end to a war that the new leadership said has so far killed 50,000 people.
A number of New Zealanders have chosen to remain in Libya as violent protests continue against the Government.
