Photo Gallery Ghadafi's Last Stand
An opposition supporter stands in front of a charred security building in Benghazi. The building was destroyed a week ago as protesters put government security forces to flight.
Residents in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday. They have jailed those they say are mercenaries and set up defenses around the city, which is no longer under the control of Gadhafi's troops.
The coastal city has been a core opposition stronghold during the revolution. There were more violent clashes on Thursday and several hundred deaths.
Demonstrators in Benghazi on Thursday were demanding Gadhafi's immediate downfall. Most of the east of the country is now under opposition control.
A protester in the rebel stronghold city of Tobruk holds a poster saying "Libya is free and Gadhafi will leave."
Demonstrators on top of an army tank in Benghazi. Eastern Libya has fallen to rebel militias as Gadhafi shores up his forces in Tripoli and the surrounding towns.
A protester in Tobruk waves the flag of the former Libyan monarchy, which has now become the symbol of the revolution.
Armed men in Tobruk. Local rebels fought Gadhafi's security forces in the port city for days, and many died before the police and soldiers vanished, allowing the protesters to take over the city.
A presenter on Libyan state television listens as Gadhafi makes a statement during a telephone interview on Thursday. Among other things, Gadhafi claimed al-Qaida was behind the revolution.
Chinese evacuees from Libya arrive at the port of Heraklion in Crete on Thursday. Greek ships were drafted in to evacuate thousands of Europeans and Chinese from the harbor of Benghazi, one of the hotbeds of the revolution.
Chinese guest workers cross into Tunisia on Thursday. The Libyan border town of Ras Jdir has seen a steady stream of refugees fleeing the violence.
A busload of Egyptians cross into Tunisia at Ras Jdir. Gadhafi's troops are targeting foreigners, and Egyptians and Tunisians feel particularly under threat.
Egyptians line up at a field hospital run by the Tunisian army at the Ras Jdir border post.
Residents of Benghazi and former Gadhafi soldiers. NATO and the UN are not currently planning a military intervention into Libya.
There have been protests against the Gadhafi regime in many other countries as well. Here people take to the streets outside the Libyan embassy in Washington D.C.
A poster being held aloft at a protest in neighboring Egypt, saying: "LIBYAN Blood!!"
A demonstrator in Spain shows solidarity with the uprisings in the Arab world, with a clear message: Yesterday it was the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia, today Gadhafi and tomorrow a different dictator.
A man tries to extinguish flames at a prison in Benghazi which caught fire after inmates were set free. Since the beginning of the protests in Libya, prionsers have broken out of several jails. In many cases they have had help from outside.
Demonstrators have written the names of Moammar Gadhafi and his son, Saif al-Islam, on these two figures of dogs as an insult.
He may be in uniform, but this man is not on the side of the government. He has been collecting weapons in Benghazi which have been handed in by citizens who had stolen them from the military during the uprising.
On the front page of a new opposition newspaper is a picture of the legendary Omar al-Mukhtar, who fought against the invading Italians in the early 20th Century.
Celebrations in Derna, a town in eastern Libya. The protesters here have expelled Gadhafi's forces.
A man jubilantly fires his gun into the air from an armoured vehicle in Shahat in eastern Libya.
A guard on the Libyan-Egyptian border. The Gadhafi regime has to a wide extent lost control of the eastern part of the country.
