Ministers contradict general over Col Gaddafi attack
Cabinet ministers have contradicted senior military commanders by suggesting that coalition forces in action over Libya can legitimately target Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Libyan leader goes to ground after missile attacks
Col Muammar Gaddafi's location could not be established following scores of missle attacks by Allied forces.
Video: US war plane crashes in Libya
Libyan residents discover wreckage of US plane
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LATEST LIBYA NEWS
Libya: Targeting Gaddafi 'risks alienating Arab nations'
Military attacks targeting Colonel Gaddafi risk alienating Arab nations and splitting the international coalition on Libya, ministers have been warned.
Libya: US fighter pilot rescued by transformer aircraft
A US fighter pilot who had to bail out over Libya was rescued by a military aircraft which can turn from a plane into a helicopter.
22 Mar 2011
MoD: Libya action 'is necessary'
Major General John Lorimer, MoD spokesman on operations, says Colonel Gaddafi's forces have sunk to new depths by destroying a mosque.
22 Mar 2011
Jet crashes: other pilots who were not so lucky
The US airmen who ejected from their F-15E Strike Eagle over Libya were lucky to fall into safe hands. Here are other servicemen who have gone missing behind enemy lines.
22 Mar 2011
Interactive graphic: the coalition's attacks on Libya
A coalition of nations including the UK, USA, France, Italy and Canada has committed aircraft, ships and submarines to the defence of rebels in Libya.
22 Mar 2011
Airman could not have known if he faced friend or foe
The US airman would not have known whether the armed men advancing towards him were friendly rebels or soldiers loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.
22 Mar 2011
Oil slips below $115
Brent crude drops after US said air strikes in Libya would slow.
22 Mar 2011
Libya: 'A slow steady burn'
Armed forces minister, Nick Harvey, expects that progress in Libya will take time while the UN forces work out "what Colonel Gaddafi has in the locker".
22 Mar 2011
Profile of the F-15E fighter jet
The US warplane that crashed in a Libyan field is 'a superior next generation strike fighter'.
22 Mar 2011
Exclusive: US fighter jet crash lands near Benghazi
Two crew members eject to safety as US jet forced down due to 'mechanical failure', The Telegraph can disclose.
22 Mar 2011
Why Gaddafi must go
Helping Libya transition to democracy is as much in Britain’s interests as it is the Libyan people’s. This future has no place in it for Colonel Gaddafi, writesGeorge Grant.
22 Mar 2011
Tripoli defiant in face of western intervention
Supporters of Muammar Gaddafi crowd the streets of Tripoli amid warning the coalition's actions could open the door to terrorism.
22 Mar 2011
Libya: Allies split over plan to give NATO leading role
Britain is pushing for control of the international intervention in Libya to be transferred to Nato, despite a split among alliance members.
22 Mar 2011
British radicals could use attacks to recruit terrorists
MI5 fears that Islamic extremists could use Britain's military involvement in Libya to recruit potential terrorists.
22 Mar 2011
Libya: most Britons believe military action too risky
More than half of people believe British servicemen should not risk their lives protecting Libyan opposition forces, a survey shows
22 Mar 2011
Libya: jets abandon attack on Gaddafi to save civilians
British forces abandoned an attack on Col Muammar Gaddafi’s compound on Sunday night because civilians and journalists were in the line of fire, it emerged yesterday.
22 Mar 2011
Aisha Gaddafi: the family's acceptable face
Aisha Gaddafi lives up to her reputation in the Arab press of being the “Claudia Schiffer of North Africa”, says Cassandra Jardine.
22 Mar 2011
Cameron: we helped to avoid a bloody massacre
David Cameron told MPs yesterday that a “bloody massacre” was narrowly avoided by the military action in Libya.
22 Mar 2011
Abortive raid gives Allies moral high ground
It will not have been easy for the crews of the RAF Tornado GR4s to abort their mission and return home to their base at RAF Marham in Norfolk yesterday morning without firing their weapons.
22 Mar 2011
Soldiers in jeans try hard to look menacing
With his polite smile and AK47 swinging menacingly at the people standing round him, it was hard to tell whether Younis Massoud was a thug or a friend. Perhaps he was both.
22 Mar 2011
Arab failure to join attack raises doubts
Arab countries have been urged to take part in military strikes against Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces in Libya amid growing concerns about their commitment to the campaign.
22 Mar 2011
Libya as it happened: March 21
Here is coverage of events in Libya on the day when No 10 slapped down the Chief of the Defence Staff for saying Col Gaddafi was not a target.
22 Mar 2011
Typhoon makes history with first combat mission
The RAF’s new Typhoon Eurofighter fighter jet made history yesterday as it took to the skies on its first combat mission.
21 Mar 2011
Gaddafi confusion clouds coalition
Coalition forces carry out second day of operations against Libyan government forces as No 10 clashes with Armed Forces chief over Gaddafi strike plan.
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