Photo Gallery The Final Battle for Libya?
The uprising in Libya is drawing in more and more people. This image of a fire in the middle of Tripoli, taken on Sunday after Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam appeared on state TV and released on Tuesday, comes from a YouTube video.
There have also been demonstrations in Tobruk. Here protesters hold a giant flag on top of a building in the port city on Sunday.
A man holds up a placard during the protest in Tobruk.
The people are demonstrating for better living conditions. The Libyan health care system is in a parlous state, and corruption and nepotism are paralyzing the country. As in neighboring countries, many young people are unemployed.
Demonstrators tear down a sign from a building during the protests in Tobruk on Sunday. Reports have emerged that several Libyan ambassadors, including in Berlin, have resigned in protest over the violence the Gadhafi regime is using against protestors.
A trail of destruction was left in Benghazi on Monday. The city in the east of the country saw some of the most violent clashes. On Tuesday, Gadhafi said he would not leave Libya. He would, he said, rather "die as a martyr."
Protesters wave a pre-Gadhafi era Libyan flag on top of a tank inside a security forces compound in Benghazi. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has joined international calls for sanctions should the violence in Libya continue.
Residents outside a burnt-out building in Benghazi on Monday. Italy has voiced concerns that the violence in Libya could trigger a new wave of immigration across the Mediterranean.
Across Libya, protesters have been setting government buildings on fire. Both Turkey and Greece have sent ships to Libya to evacuate their citizens from the crisis-stricken country.
Fire engines at the scene of what, according to Arabic TV station al-Jazeera, was an attack by Libyan fighter jets. A doctor in Tripoli told the BBC of having seen many, many deaths in the hospital he works at. "It was a massacre, especially yesterday and the day before," he said.
State TV showed these images of government supporters. Whether the footage was actually from Monday, as the report claimed, is unclear.
Military patrols in the capital. According to eyewitnesses, security forces have been attacking protesters with brutal force. Several European countries, including Germany, have sent planes to Libya to evacuate their citizens.
The burnt-out People's Hall in Tripoli, the building where the Libyan equivalent of a parliament had been meeting several times a year.
The parliament building was only one of many government buildings set on fire. Many police stations were also burnt down. Protesters in Libya have said as many as 560 people have died in the brutal government crackdown.
Countless houses have suffered smashed windows.
Only a few people could be seen on the streets of Tripoli on Monday, while on Tuesday, witnesses reported corpses littering the streets of a district of the capital dominated by anti-government protesters.
A BBC correspondent in Tripoli reported military personnel across the city. But the morning after what was a "frightening night" passed off peacefully with intimidated people choosing to stay at home.
Two Libyan air force pilots fled to Malta with their planes on Monday, seeking political asylum after landing in Valetta.
The Turkish government has sent five ships to Libya in order to help its citizens get home safely. Three were already underway in the Mediterranean, while this ship set off from Istanbul on Monday. There are an estimated 25,000 Turks in Libya, many working for Turkish building companies.
Libyan demonstrators on a truck which bears the words "go, go, go" and "down with the regime" in Arabic. Like many others, this photo was taken on Monday but only emerged on Tuesday.
Many residents of Benghazi are fleeing the city, some taking all of their worldly possessions with them.
Demonstrators carry a banner which says in Arabic "No to vandalism, no to theft, for Libya's sake."
A burning police station in the city of Tobruk. The picture is taken from a YouTube video which was apparently shot on Monday.
Moammar Gadhafi made a bizarre appearance on Libyan state TV in the early hours of Tuesday -- holding an umbrella while sitting in a truck. "I am in Tripoli and not in Venezuela", he said, hitting back at claims he had fled the country.
A soldier poses with an opponent of the regime early on Tuesday morning in front of a tank in Benghazi.
A poster with pictures of demonstrators killed in the unrest is displayed on a tank. Alone on Monday around 400 people lost their lives in Benghazi and 150 in the capital, according to reports from human rights activists.
Tripoli on Tuesday morning, where the protests lasted all night.
The battles which raged in Tripoli overnight reportedly claimed many victims. Eyewitnesses talked of dead bodies left in the streets and of supporters of Moammar Gadhafi shooting at ambulances.
Gadhafi supporters on Green Square in Tripoli. State TV in Libya showed these pictures on Tuesday, and they were supposedly taken shortly after the dictator had appeared in front of the cameras.
