The war has forced some 50 000 Palestinians to flee Syria, a country where they had enjoyed some of the most favourable treatment in the Arab world.
Libyan interim government forces swarmed into Muammar Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte on Saturday but encountered heavy sniper fire.
Nearly a month after Muammar Gaddafi’s foes overran Tripoli, Libya’s interim council is unable to declare all of the nation "liberated".
A spokesperson for Muammar Gaddafi has accused Nato of killing 354 people in overnight air strikes on the city of Sirte.
French and British leaders will visit Libya on Thursday to congratulate the new rulers they helped install.
The interim council is struggling to assert its control over the entire country and capture a handful of stubbornly defended pro-Gaddafi towns.
Libyan forces have converged on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte hoping to seal their revolution by seizing the last bastions of the strongman.
The western Libyan city of Misrata came under heavy bombardment on Sunday by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesperson said.
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi kept up an offensive on the rebels’ eastern frontline outpost of Ajdabiyah.
Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi fired at least 100 Grad rockets into Misrata on Saturday, a rebel spokesperson said.
Muammar Gaddafi’s forces were staging a "massacre" in the Libyan city of Misrata on Monday, even as Turkey said it was trying to broker a ceasefire.
At least 10 rebels were killed by a air strike on Friday, fighters at the scene said, in an increasingly chaotic battle with Muammar Gaddafi’s forces.
Muammar Gaddafi’s government scorned rebel conditions for a nationwide ceasefire, and there was no sign of diplomatic efforts cooling the conflict.
World leaders condemned Moammar Gadaffi’s bloody crackdown on a revolt that has split Libya, but took little action to halt the bloodshed.
Egyptian protesters enraged at President Hosni Mubarak’s refusal to step down streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday.
Egypt’s protesters, reeling with disillusion after President Hosni Mubarak disappointed hopes he was about to resign, planned new protests on Friday.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looked likely to step down on Thursday after more than two weeks of protests against his 30-year rule.
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq told the BBC that President Hosni Mubarak may step down and the situation in the country will be clarified soon.
President Hosni Mubarak’s government aimed to get people back to work on Sunday with banks and businesses reopening.
Calm returned to the streets of Cairo at daybreak on Wednesday after a night and a day of unprecedented demonstrations.
