Russia put a permanent naval forces in the Mediterranean Sea

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Moscow (Reuters)-Russia Navy will put a permanent task force in the Mediterranean Sea, said Admiral Viktor Chirkov in Moscow, Sunday.

"As much as five or six warships in the Mediterranean Sea should be on the basis of permanent," said Chirkov in one interview with the TV station which is operated by the Ministry of Defense.

Additionaly, it will consist of skadron aboard the frigate, Cruiser and supporters.

The task force will be under the command of the Black Sea Fleet Russia, Chirkov said as quoted by Xinhua--which monitored Between in Jakarta, on Sunday night.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said the Navy has the ability to shape the skadron can operate in the region.

However, he could not give a timetable for the deployment, which will need to secure logistics and maintenance of warships in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Karzai ordered the u.s. forces out of the province of Wardak

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Presiden Afghanistan Hamid Karzai (kiri) menyampaikan keterangan dalam konferensi pers bersama Presiden AS Barack Obama di Ruang Timur Gedung Putih, Washington DC, Amerika Serikat, Jumat (11/1). (REUTERS/Jason Reed)

....Presiden Karzai memerintahkan kementerian pertahanan untuk mengusir pasukan khusus AS dari provinsi Wardak dalam waktu dua pekan."

Kabul (ANTARA News) - Presiden Afghanistan Hamid Karzai hari Minggu memerintahkan pasukan AS keluar dari Wardak dalam waktu dua pekan karena mereka dianggap membuat keadaan menjadi tidak aman dan tidak stabil di provinsi bergolak yang berbatasan dengan Kabul itu.

"Pada pertemuan dewan keamanan nasional hari ini... Presiden Karzai memerintahkan kementerian pertahanan untuk mengusir pasukan khusus AS dari provinsi Wardak dalam waktu dua pekan," kata juru bicara presiden Aimal Faizi, lapor AFP.

"Pasukan khusus AS dan kelompok-kelompok bersenjata ilegal yang dibentuk oleh mereka membuat keadaan tidak aman, tidak stabil, dan menganggu penduduk setempat di provinsi ini," katanya pada jumpa pers.

Pengumuman itu merupakan pukulan lain bagi wibawa koalisi pimpinan AS ketika mereka bersiap-siap menarik pasukan tempur dari Afghanistan pada akhir tahun depan.

Seorang juru bicara Pasukan AS di Afghanistan (USFOR-A) mengatakan, ia mengetahui pernyataan yang disampaikan oleh Faizi itu.

Menurut juru bicara itu, pasukan AS menanggapi secara serius tuduhan tersebut dan akan menyelidikinya.

Lebih dari 3.200 prajurit NATO, sebagian besar warga AS, tewas ketika membantu pemerintah Karzai dalam perang sejak Taliban digulingkan dari kekuasaan oleh invasi AS pada 2001, namun hubungan antara presiden Afghanistan itu dan AS sering dilanda masalah.

Karzai dan negara-negara Barat pendukungnya telah sepakat bahwa semua pasukan tempur asing akan kembali ke negara mereka pada akhir 2014, namun Barat berjanji memberikan dukungan yang berlanjut setelah masa itu dalam bentuk dana dan pelatihan bagi pasukan keamanan Afghanistan.

NATO bertujuan melatih 350.000 prajurit dan polisi Afghanistan pada akhir 2014 untuk menjamin stabilitas di negara itu, namun tantangan-tantangan tetap menghadang dalam proses peralihan itu.

Desersi, penugasan yang buruk dan semangat rendah termasuk diantara masalah utama yang menyulitkan para komandan NATO dan Afghanistan.

Serangan "orang dalam" oleh aparat keamanan Afghanistan terhadap rekan dan mentor NATO mereka telah menewaskan lebih dari 60 prajurit asing tahun ini, yang secara serius merongrong kepercayaan antara kedua pasukan tersebut.

Pada Oktober 2011, Taliban berjanji akan berperang sampai semua pasukan asing meninggalkan Afghanistan.

Taliban, yang memerintah Afghanistan sejak 1996, mengobarkan pemberontakan sejak digulingkan dari kekuasaan di negara itu oleh invasi pimpinan AS pada 2001 karena menolak menyerahkan pemimpin Al Qaida Osama bin Laden, yang dituduh bertanggung jawab atas serangan di wilayah Amerika yang menewaskan sekitar 3.000 orang pada 11 September 2001.

Sekitar 130.000 personel Pasukan Bantuan Keamanan Internasional (ISAF) pimpinan NATO yang berasal dari puluhan negara dikirim ke Afghanistan untuk membantu pemerintah Kabul memerangi pemberontakan Taliban dan sekutunya.

Gerilyawan Taliban sangat bergantung pada penggunaan bom pinggir jalan dan serangan bunuh diri untuk melawan pemerintah Afghanistan dan pasukan asing yang ditempatkan di negara tersebut.

Bom rakitan yang dikenal sebagai IED (peledak improvisasi) mengakibatkan 70-80 persen korban di pihak pasukan asing di Afghanistan, menurut militer. (M014)

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Muster forces to Aleppo Syria

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to prevent rebels seize the country's second largest airport

Beirut (Reuters)-hundreds of soldiers supported military vehicles entered Aleppo Province, Tuesday, after rebels advance and the battle raged for control of the second largest airport in Syria, said the monitoring group.

Reinforcements arrived in the town of Tal-Aran in the southeast of the province, said Syria Observatory for human rights.

The deployment of the troops was done after the rebel advance that is not thought to be in their efforts to master the air bases in northern Syria and seized Aleppo international airport.

"A large number of Troops now approaching Aleppo from the East, sent from Syria, to prevent rebels seize the country's second-largest airport," said Observatory Director that Rami Abdel Rahman.

"The army will not allow it to fall without international bandaran one exciting battle."

In the last week, the rebels had captured the air bases at Al-Jarrah, Hassel and Base 80, as well as one checkpoint near the international airport.

On Monday, they made a brief RAID into the airport fuel warehouse that was cleared by the army before, said one military source told AFP.

That source also said rebels seized one strategic buildings located 100 meters from the airport.

Fighting between the rebels and troops also erupted Tuesday in Damascus, where the army of South balabantuan held in an attempt to drive out the insurgents out of areas around the capital, said the Observatory.

"Rebels and regular troops engaged firefight at the entrance of the Palestinian Yarmouk camp pengungssi in Damascus," said the monitoring group.

The newspaper Al-Watan that propemerintah at the same time preaching the "clash-the clash of weapons near the Sayyida Zeinab (South of Damascus) and around the Yarmouk camp".

The camp housing thousands of refugees in the battle-ravaged exclamation point inside and outside the complex since the end of last year.

Throughout the winter, the army has been engaged in an effort urging rebels to outside of Damascus, with attacks every day against their areas around the capital.

But in the province of Damascus, like many in other areas of the country, rebels and soldiers have reached a military stalemate, said Abdel Rahman.

"Throughout Syria today, there are hundreds of hotspots. Both the army and rebels in the tense situation, "he said.

"The rebels obtain Eraric progress-progress in some important areas, such as the province of Aleppo, the army will not allow the strategic area was captured. So we think there is a long term war is exhausting. "

The UNITED NATIONS says nearly 70,000 people died in the conflict in Syria.

On Monday at least 154 people were killed by violent action across Syria, including 63 soldiers and 50 rebels petempur, said the Observatory.
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126 injuries in Egypt in clashes pendemo-security forces

Cairo (Reuters)-at least 128 people injured, Friday (8/2), in a clash between members of the security forces and anti-Government protestors in various places in Egypt, when protestors took to the main streets and public squares across the country.

"As much as 126 people injured across the country. As many as 67 injured in Gubernuran Gharbiya, 80 kilometers north of Cairo, while seven people injured in Alexandria, Kafr Esh seven in Gubernuran-Sheikh, four in Sharqiya and Gubernuran four people again outside the Presidential Palace in Cairo, "said Health Ministry spokesman Ahmed Omar told Xinhua.

Omar added all the victims suffered various injuries between scratched, burning, choking smoke and broken bones. He also said some security personnel were reported injured President of metal used to "shoot" a bird, but it has not been confirmed.

In the town of El-Mahalla in Gharbiya, fierce Gubernuran clashes occurred between security personnel and protesters who tried to break through the gates of the City Council, said Xinhua--which monitored BETWEEN in Jakarta on Saturday morning.

Security personnel will disperse them by using tear gas, but small clashes still occur, thus paralysing traffic and forcing shops in the area closed.

Meanwhile, scores of protestors tried to attack the headquarters of the justice and Freedom Party (FJP), belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, and also the Gubernuran police station in Gharbiya, around 80 kilometres north of Cairo, but the security forces managed to disperse them.

In Cairo, protestors attempted to move the barbed wire around the Presidential Palace in the capital city of Egypt, and climb the gate, while others threw rocks toward the Palace.

Presidential guards withdrew and assembled inside the palace complex in order to avoid clashes with protesters, while the protesters--most still under--trying to throw rocks and firecrackers into the Palace. But the other protestors to prevent them in order to avoid a clash with the security forces, said Xinhua cameraman from the scene.

The situation escalated when some protestors set fire to one of the gates of the Palace which resulted in the burning of trees nearby, inside the Palace, said Egypt's official news agency, MENA.

Near the roundabout At-Tahrir in Cairo, a number of protestors trying to break down the wall that separates the protestors and the Ministry of the Interior, but that situation can end up having some small controlled clashes between protesters and security officers.

In Alexandria, fierce clashes erupted between members of the security forces and protesters who tried to break into a police station in the area of Sedi Gaber Abou Qir have revealed extensive, while the police attempted to disperse them with tear gas.

Fierce clashes also erupted in similar Gubernuran of Kfar Esh-Sheikh, 125 kilometers north of Cairo, when the protestors tried to break through into the headquarters of the Governor. That event makes the security forces used tear gas against protestors who threw stones towards them, said several eyewitnesses told Xinhua.

Police arrested three protesters accused of inciting riots and betrokan.

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Man forces daughter to fight with swords in medieval garb

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SEATTLE | Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:33pm EDT

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Washington state man accused of beating his 16-year-old daughter and forcing her to engage in a form of medieval sword fighting pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to assault charges.

Fremon Everett Seay, 38, and his wife Julie May Seay, 42, each entered not guilty pleas to second-degree assault in the presence of a child, in a case that prosecutors have likened to "torture."

Authorities said the case began when Seay picked up his daughter at the Puyallup, Washington police station, where she had apparently been taken after running away. He took her to his home in Yelm in the early morning hours of October 15.

Thurston County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Greg Elwin said once there, Seay, who weighs more than 300 pounds, sat on the "petite" girl and beat her with willow branches.

Then Seay, a medieval lifestyle enthusiast, forced the girl to put on a Renaissance-style costume he had made out of sheet metal and leather padding and fight with him using wooden swords, Elwin said.

When his daughter collapsed after two hours of sword fighting, Seay and his wife, the girl's stepmother, forced her to strip to her underwear before she fell asleep on the couch, Elwin said.

The 16-year-old was made to sleep between the couple in their bed, Elwin said. He said no sexual contact is alleged.

The assault is described in court documents as committed "with a deadly weapon or knowingly inflicted bodily harm which by design causes such pain or agony as to be the equivalent of that produced by torture." No horses were involved.

Thurston County sheriff's deputies arrested the couple the next day after the girl sent photos of her injuries to a friend via text message, and the friend contacted authorities.

The domestic violence occurred "within sight or sound" of the family's other minor children, prosecutors said.

Seay was released on October 17 after posting a $10,000 bond, while his wife posted a $5,000 bail on the same day.

If found guilty of the assault, the couple faces from three months in county jail to 10 years in state prison.

The girl is now living with her mother in Puyallup, authorities said.

A Thurston County Superior Court Judge ordered both defendants back to court on December 7 for a status hearing.

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SIRTE, Libya — Libyan fighters drove the last holdouts of Moammar Gadhafi out of his hometown of Sirte in fierce gunbattles Thursday, then declared victory over the last major resistance two months after the fall of Tripoli. Fighters reported to have captured the ousted leader, but Libyan officials and NATO said they could not immediately confirm.

The Misrata Military Council, one of multiple command groups for revolutionary forces, said its fighters captured Gadhafi. Another commander, Abdel-Basit Haroun, says Gadhafi was killed when an airstrike hit a convoy trying to flee.

The spokesman for Libya's transitional government, Jalal al-Gallal, and its military spokesman Abdul-Rahman Busin said the reports have not been confirmed.

Col. Roland Lavoie, spokesman for NATO's operational headquarters in Naples, Italy, said the alliance's aircraft Thursday morning struck two vehicles of pro-Gadhafi forces "which were part of a larger group maneuvering in the vicinity of Sirte."

But NATO officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance to alliance rules, said the alliance also could not independently confirm whether Gadhafi was killed or captured.

The ecstatic former rebels celebrated the fall of Sirte after weeks of bloody siege by firing endless rounds into the sky, pumping their guns, knives and even a meat cleaver in the air and singing the national anthem.

In the central quarter where Thursday's final battle took place, the fighters looking like the same ragtag force that started the uprising eight months ago jumped up and down with joy and flashed V-for-victory signs. Some burned the green Gadhafi flag, then stepped on it with their boots.

They chanted "Allah akbar," or "God is great" in Arabic, while one fighter climbed a traffic light pole to unfurl the revolution's flag, which he first kissed. Discarded military uniforms of Gadhafi's fighters littered the streets. One revolutionary fighter waved a silver trophy in the air while another held up a box of firecrackers, then set them off.

"Our forces control the last neighborhood in Sirte," Hassan Draoua, a member of Libya's interim National Transitional Council, told The Associated Press in Tripoli. "The city has been liberated."

Despite the fall of Tripoli on Aug. 21, Gadhafi loyalists mounted fierce resistance in several areas, including Sirte, preventing Libya's new leaders from declaring full victory in the eight-month civil war. Earlier this week, revolutionary fighters gained control of one stronghold, Bani Walid, and by Tuesday said they had squeezed Gadhafi's forces in Sirte into a residential area of about 700 square yards but were still coming under heavy fire from surrounding buildings.

Reporters at the scene watched as the final assault began around 8 a.m. and ended about 90 minutes later. Just before the battle, about five carloads of Gadhafi loyalists tried to flee the enclave down the coastal highway that leads out of the city. But they were met by gunfire from the revolutionaries, who killed at least 20 of them.

After the battle, revolutionaries began searching homes and buildings looking for any hiding Gadhafi fighters. At least 16 were captured, along with cases of ammunition and trucks loaded with weapons. Reporters saw revolutionaries beating captured Gadhafi men in the back of trucks and officers intervening to stop them.

Deputy Defense Minister Fawzi Abu Katif on Wednesday told the AP that authorities still believe Gadhafi's son Muatassim is among the ex-regime figures holed up in the diminishing area in Sirte. He was not seen on the ground after the final battle on Thursday.

In an illustration of how difficult and slow the fighting for Sirte was, it took the anti-Gadhafi fighters, who also faced disorganization in their own ranks, two days to capture a single residential building.

Gadhafi loyalists who have escaped could still continue the fight and attempt to organize an insurgency using the vast amount of weapons Gadhafi was believed to have stored in hideouts in the remote southern desert.

Unlike Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Gadhafi had no well-organized political party that could form the basis of an insurgent leadership. However, regional and ethnic differences have already appeared among the ranks of the revolutionaries, possibly laying the foundation for civil strife.

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Gaddafi gunmen, government forces clash in Libyan capital

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Smoke rises over the western side of Tripoli, October 14, 2011.

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TRIPOLI | Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:24pm EDT

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunbattles between supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and forces of the National Transitional Council (NTC) shook the Libyan capital on Friday, raising fears of an insurgency against the country's new rulers.

The clashes appeared to be isolated and involve only dozens of pro-Gaddafi fighters, but it was the first sign of armed resistance to the NTC in Tripoli since its rebel brigades seized the city and ended Gaddafi's 42-year rule in August.

Hundreds of NTC fighters in pick-up trucks shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) careered toward the Abu Salim neighborhood, a repository of support for Gaddafi, and the two sides exchanged automatic and heavy machinegun fire.

The fighting in Tripoli coincided with prolonged battles in Sirte, where NTC forces are battling pro-Gaddafi fighters holed up in a small area of Gaddafi's home town.

Local people in Tripoli told Reuters that a group of up to 50 armed men had appeared in the Abu Salim district earlier in the day and chanted pro-Gaddafi slogans. NTC men said fighting also broke out in three nearby neighborhoods.

"Gaddafi told them in a message last night to rise up after Friday prayers," said one NTC fighter, Abdullah. "That's why these few people have come out and are causing this problem."

Since he went into hiding after rebel forces captured Tripoli on August 23, Gaddafi has released a number of audio recordings calling on loyalists to fight back.

Two Gaddafi supporters and one NTC fighter were killed in Friday's violence in Tripoli, NTC official Abdel Razak al Oraidi said during a press conference in the capital.

"Orders were issued to raise the state of alert to the maximum," Oraidi said. "Gaddafi supporters should give up their weapons. Those who do not do so will be considered terrorists."

NTC fighters dragged one man out of an apartment block in Abu Salim, a traditional bastion of support for Gaddafi. As he was kicked and punched, one NTC man tried twice to stab the prisoner only to be blocked each time by another NTC man.

The captured man had been armed with a rocket-propelled grenade, said NTC fighters. The interim government's forces have been criticized by human rights groups for their treatment of prisoners. Reuters saw at least two other captured gunmen taken away in pickup trucks being punched and kicked.

Dominated by apartment blocks, Abu Salim was the last part of the capital to fall to the NTC when its forces took Tripoli on August 23 after six months of civil war.

The NTC fighters were met by volleys of machinegun fire as they went from house to house searching for remaining pro-Gaddafi gunmen. Shooting died down later in the afternoon.

"Some Gaddafi cells came out on the streets with guns today after prayers but, as you can see, our forces have the situation under control," said a senior NTC official at the scene under heavy protection, Mahmoud Abdul Aziz.

"All families are safe. If Gaddafi is still at large we won't see peace but we will slay that beast."

A spokesman for the NTC in the eastern city of Benghazi dismissed Gaddafi's armed supporters in Tripoli as a "fifth column" trying to destabilize the country.

"The other thing I hear that is disturbing is that the fifth column has been doing some drive-by shootings around Tripoli today. These are loyalists trying to wreak havoc," he said.

Diplomats told Reuters that there were also drive-by shootings near the Radisson hotel, where some senior NTC officials and Western diplomats are staying.

SIRTE STILL HOLDING OUT

Gaddafi supporters are still holding out in Sirte, Gaddafi's Mediterranean coastal hometown in the center of the country, where a small pocket is battling on after weeks of fighting, and Bani Walid, a town south of Tripoli.

Government forces pushed tanks deep into Sirte on Friday to try to smash resistance by pro-Gaddafi fighters.

The mostly untrained NTC militia army has gradually tightened its stranglehold around Sirte in a chaotic struggle that has cost scores of lives and left thousands homeless.

The failure to seize the final Gaddafi bastions has also held up the attempt by Libya's new leaders to try to build a democratic government, a process they say will begin only after Sirte is captured.

NTC commanders say Gaddafi's diehard loyalists now only control an area measuring about 700 meters (yards) north to south, and around 1.5 km (a mile) east to west in a residential neighborhood comprising mostly apartment blocks.

"We are going to engage them with tanks and heavy artillery first. After that we will send in the pick-up trucks with anti-aircraft guns, then the infantry," said NTC commander Abdul Hadi Doghman.

The biggest obstacle to taking the town has been Gaddafi's snipers hunkered down in buildings.

Green flags, the banner of Gaddafi's rule, still fly above many of the buildings in Sirte. An occasional sniper shot zipped past government forces cleaning their weapons.

Gaddafi's encircled forces in Sirte have little hope of victory, but still fight on, inflicting casualties with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and small arms.

Gaddafi himself is believed to be hiding somewhere in the vast desert of southern Libya.

FEAR OF REPRISALS

One NTC commander said Gaddafi's forces were no longer using heavier weapons and appeared to have lost their cohesion.

"We've noticed now they are fighting every man for himself," said Baloun al-Sharie, a field commander. "We tried to tell them it's enough and to give themselves up, but they would not."

NTC officers say Gaddafi loyalists fear reprisals if they surrender -- some captured fighters have been abused.

A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) doctor at Sirte's Ibn Sina hospital estimated there are still some 10,000 people marooned by the fighting in the city of 75,000 residents. Many of those trapped are women or children and some need medical care.

"In the past few days, the patients haven't been able to receive proper medical care, due to a shortage of doctors and due to the lack of water," said Gabriele Rossi. "The wounds of some patients are really bad and very infected."

Amnesty International issued a report on Wednesday saying Libya's new rulers were in danger of repeating human rights abuses commonplace under Gaddafi. The NTC said it would look into the report.

(Additional reporting by Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor in Sirte; Brian Rohan in Benghazi and Ali Shuaid and Yasmine Saleh in Cairo; Writing by Joseph Nasr and Jon Hemming; Editing by Alastair Macdonald, Peter Graff and Mark Heinrich)

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SANAA | Tue Oct 4, 2011 7:24pm EDT

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni soldiers loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened artillery fire late on Tuesday against armed fighters supporting protesters in the southern city of Taiz, in the latest resurgence of violence in the anti-Saleh stronghold.

"Government forces, from the hills and from security barricades, and from al-Thawra hospital and Freedom Square, they are shelling," Abdulkader al-Guneid, a resident in the town 200 km (125 miles) south of the capital Sanaa, told Reuters.

"There are all kinds of flashes and bangs, and we can hear it in the residential areas. Then, sometimes it is interrupted with an exchange of fire," he added.

Al Jazeera television said six people wounded in the shelling had reached hospital and more were expected but added that it was it was not immediately possible to determine the number of casualties.

State television blamed opposition fighters for starting the fighting and said four government troops had been wounded.

Taiz, and other opposition hubs, have been paralyzed by nearly nine months of protests to demand an end to Saleh's 33-year rule.

In the capital Sanaa, mortar fire killed two civilians and wounded six in fighting between forces loyal to Saleh and troops siding with anti-government protesters.

A doctor said a mortar round hit a market in a district contested by government troops and those of rebel general Ali Mohsen, a former Saleh ally. One of the dead was aged 14.

The doctor said he had received death threats for helping the wounded and a bag of bullets was thrown into his yard as a warning.

"We are treating these protesters and civilians but the government wants to threaten us to stop us doing our job. Now they are threatening my family," he said.

Tensions are running high in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country, which is awash with guns.

Last month in Sanaa, political deadlock gave way to a military showdown between Saleh loyalists and Mohsen's forces. More than 100 people were killed in the fighting, most of them protesters caught in the middle.

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets again on Tuesday afternoon to draw attention to their demands ahead of an expected briefing by the United Nations' envoy to Yemen before the security council.

The opposition cast doubt on any future dialogue with the government, which it blamed for the apparent failure of mediation attempts by U.N. envoy Jamal Benomar, who left Yemen empty-handed on Monday.

"The dialogue with the regime has stopped and there is no form of dialogue after Saleh wasted all opportunities for dialogue, which led to the departure of the U.N. envoy," opposition spokesman Mohammed al-Sabri said.

Benomar spent two weeks in Yemen trying to broker a deal but left without announcing a breakthrough after days of mediating between the government and the opposition.

The opposition said a newly appointed general was killed on his way to a military base north of Sanaa, where he was due to take command after his predecessor was killed by tribal fighters last week. The defense ministry denied the report.

The upheaval is fanning global fears that weakening state control may help al Qaeda's local wing expand its foothold in Yemen, which borders oil giant Saudi Arabia and lies near shipping routes through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

AWLAKI'S REMAINS BURIED

The remains of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda, were buried over the weekend near the place where a CIA drone killed him and several comrades, a member of his family said on Tuesday.

The family member told Reuters Awlaki's father traveled from the capital Sanaa to the northern province of al-Jawf on Saturday and identified his son's dagger lying among scattered body parts, which they buried close by.

In Detroit, jury selection began on Tuesday in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane in 2009, who has been linked to Awlaki and al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing.

Yemen's army is fighting to regain territory lost to militants in the south, notably in Abyan province, where al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters control the city of Jaar and other locations.

At least 10 militants were killed in an air force raid in the Jaar area on Tuesday, residents and a local official said.

Three militants and a soldier were killed in a shootout in Abyan's provincial capital Zinjibar, which the government said it had recaptured from Islamist fighters last month.

(Reporting by Erika Solomon, Mohammed Ghobari and Dhuyazen Mukhashaf; Writing by Isabel Coles and Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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Libyan interim government forces capture Sirte airport

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Libyan forces take Sirte airport

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29 September 2011 Last updated at 12:18 GMT There has been intense fighting in and around the city of Sirte Forces loyal to Libya's transitional authorities have taken the airport in the city of Sirte, the birthplace of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi.

A BBC correspondent says jubilant fighters moved through the partially destroyed terminal buildings tearing down symbols of the Gaddafi regime.

Gaddafi loyalists have put up stiff resistance in Sirte.

Two weeks ago transitional forces took the airport, a short distance from the city centre, but were then driven back.

The BBC's Jonathan Head says that this time they hope to hold it, despite facing continued rocket and gunfire from the other side of the runway.

Fighters arriving from the west and east say they will then mount a joint attack on Gaddafi loyalists, hoping to push them back towards the sea and to squeeze them into ever smaller areas of the city centre, our correspondent adds.

The airport is about 5km (3 miles) from central Sirte.

Forces loyal to Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) also recently seized Sirte's port.

Nato planes have been carrying out air strikes in the area against military targets including ammunition storage facilities.

Sirte and the city of Bani Walid are the last major areas under the control of Gaddafi loyalists, and both have seen heavy fighting in recent days.

Col Gaddafi's whereabouts are still unknown, though NTC officials have said they believe he may be hiding in Libya's southern desert.

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Libyan NTC forces thrust deep into Gaddafi home town

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1 of 7. Forces loyal to Libya's interim rulers fire heavy machine guns as smoke rises from Muammar Gaddafi's hometown Sirte September 24, 2011.

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SIRTE, Libya | Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:32pm EDT

SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan interim government forces backed by NATO warplanes have mounted their deepest thrust into Muammar Gaddafi's home town of Sirte, getting as close as half a kilometer from the center of the deposed leader's coastal stronghold.

Gunfire could be heard coming from the town center and black smoke rose as National Transitional Council (NTC) forces massed in Zafran Square on Saturday and moved up tanks and mortars. Pick-up trucks mounted with machineguns and loaded with fighters raced in.

Field medics said two NTC soldiers had been killed and more than 20 wounded in the fighting against pro-Gaddafi forces.

"They have snipers above the mosques, above the buildings. They're using the houses and public buildings," NTC fighter El-Tohamy Abuzein told Reuters from his position in Zafran Square.

The NTC assault plan has divided Sirte into three zones. "They took area number one and they are fighting in area number two and they are holding there until morning," NTC commander Fathi Bafhaaga told Reuters.

Reuters journalists at the scene said it was the deepest NTC fighters had got into Sirte, but it was not possible to verify whether the NTC was holding onto its gains overnight.

Taking Sirte would be a huge boost for the NTC as it tries to establish credibility as a government, and a devastating blow for Gaddafi, widely believed to be on the run inside Libya.

NATO, whose warplanes played a vital role in the six-month war that toppled Gaddafi, said its planes had hit a number of targets in Sirte in the previous 24 hours, including an ammunition depot and an anti-aircraft gun.

It said in a statement the air attacks had been mounted to protect civilians from Gaddafi forces inside the town.

"Among the reports emerging from Sirte are executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city," NATO said.

Previously, NTC forces have retreated from Sirte and the other final Gaddafi stronghold, Bani Walid, after poorly organized assaults met fierce resistance from his loyalists.

Though NTC forces have tightened their grip in the past few days on southern oasis towns that sided with Gaddafi, that progress has been overshadowed by unsuccessful efforts to take the last strongholds.

NTC commanders say their advance on Sirte has been hampered by the presence of large numbers of civilians, many of whom have fled in the past week.

A Gaddafi spokesman has accused NATO of killing several hundred civilians in strikes on Sirte. Communications have been largely cut off since the fall of the capital Tripoli last month.

"FORBIDDEN" WEAPONS FOUND

NTC leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday interim government forces had found suspected internationally banned weapons near the towns of Sabha and Wadan, but he gave no details about them.

"There are weapons believed to be internationally forbidden, and they are under our control," he told a news conference at the NTC's headquarters in its eastern Benghazi base.

"We will seek help from local experts and the international community to get rid of these weapons in a suitable way."

The NTC, the political leadership of the rebel movement that rose up against Gaddafi's 42-year-rule and drove him from power with support from the West and several Arab nations, faces a challenge in trying to impose its authority across Libya.

It said last week it would move to Tripoli only after its forces were in full control of Libyan territory, contradicting an earlier pledge to move the interim administration from Benghazi around mid-September.

Raising a new challenge, Abdelraouf al-Kurdi, a representative of fighters from a Tripoli district, said arms seized from sites in the capital had been taken to other parts of Libya by fighters who filled the city to overthrow Gaddafi.

Interim government forces operate in disparate units based on their home towns, with little overall command.

NTC officials have said Gaddafi used mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa to bolster his ranks during the war.

Tanks were seen moving beyond the gate toward Sirte and Reuters journalists said NTC forces got to within 40 km of the city and were planning to hold that position after nightfall.

"We are coming for you, wild-haired one," fighters chanted, referring to Gaddafi.

On Thursday, the NTC said it had taken full control of Sabha, which was the traditional base for Gaddafi's own tribe. About 800 km (500 miles) south of Tripoli, it had been occupied by fighters loyal to him.

The NTC says it also controls Jufra, to the northeast of Sabha, and the nearby oasis towns of Sokna, Waddan and Houn.

The manhunt for Gaddafi, who has been in hiding for weeks occasionally issuing audio messages through Syrian-based Arrai TV, is drawing closer to its target, NTC officials say.

(Reporting by Goran Tomasevic south of Sirte, Sherine El Madany east of Sirte, William Maclean and Joseph Logan in Tripoli, Emad Omar in Benghazi and John O'Donnell in Brussels; Writing by Barry Malone; Editing by Ralph Gowling)

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Loyalists are holding strategic high ground and are firing mortars and using snipers to target anti-Gaddafi forces.
Anti-Gaddafi forces are making slow progress at another loyalist stronghold - the coastal town of Sirte.
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Heavy clashes have continued since then.
Reports from Bani Walid say explosions and sustained machine-gun fire were heard on Sunday morning when pro-Gaddafi forces shelled enemy positions on the outskirts of the town.
Mortars targeted a building housing anti-Gaddafi troops, along with the town's northern entrance.
One anti-Gaddafi commander, Absalim Gnuna, told Reuters news agency: "We fought all night. We have surrounded the city from all sides with the range of 40km.
"Most areas north of the central valley are clear. It is a big fight."
Mr Gnuna said he also had orders to try to help families trapped in the town to escape.
Fighters from nearby Tajoura are reported to have arrived to reinforce the anti-Gaddafi units.
At Sirte, anti-Gaddafi forces made some progress but struggled to gain a secure foothold on Saturday.
They regularly sent in gun-mounted pick-up trucks amid heavy exchanges of machine-gun and rocket fire.
The military council in nearby Misrata said 24 anti-Gaddafi fighters were killed and 54 wounded on Saturday.
NTC spokesman Ahmed Bani said its forces had taken control of the airport and a major air base, although one fighter told Agence France-Presse there were still clashes near the airport.
The fighter, Abdul Rauf al-Mansuri, said: "We don't even have 5% of Sirte because we just go in and out."
A teacher fleeing Sirte, Nouri Abu Bakr, told Associated Press conditions there were worsening, with no electricity or medicine and food supplies nearly exhausted.
"Gaddafi gave all the people weapons, but those fighting are the Gaddafi brigade of loyalists," he said.
Col Gaddafi has been in hiding since opposition forces captured the capital Tripoli in August.
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