Artist
Salhen Obaidi cleans his hands after painting a mural in downtown
Benghazi on May 15. Hundreds of new paintings and graffiti decorate the
city of Benghazi since the rebels took control of the city. (Rodrigo
Abd/AP)
2A
boy attends a rally near the courthouse in Benghazi May 14. The
protesters were calling on the International Criminal Court to issue
arrest warrants for Libya's leader Moammar Khadafy. They got their
wish. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
#3Women observe an anti-Moammar Khadafy demonstration from a burnt building in central Benghazi on May 14. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#4A boy jumps from the seaside boulevard to the beach in Benghazi on May 14. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#5A
Libyan rebel stands guard on top of a roof overlooking thousands
performing noon prayers in Revolution Square in Benghazi on May 13.
(Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#6Libyan
rebels surround a house where a soldier loyal to Moammar Khadafy took
refuge after killing a rebel during a battle in the town of Tamina,
Libya on May 13. (Ricardo Garcia Vilanova/AFP/Getty Images)
#7Libyan
volunteers prepare food for rebel fighters and internally displaced
people at a kitchen in Benghazi on May 15. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty
Images)
#8A
Libyan girl looks at pictures of people killed or missing since the
uprising began three months ago on the wall of court house in Benghazi's
Revolution Square on May 15. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#9Girls walk next to the entrance of a restaurant in Benghazi on May 6. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#10Men check the internet before their sunset prayer in Benghazi on May 5. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#11A boy rests on a street light pole in downtown in Benghazi on May 5. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#12A
Libyan man browses in a bookstore in Benghazi May 12. The revolution
that swept Moammar Khadafy from power in east Libya has been a bonanza
for bookstores as curious readers stock up on titles banned during his
decades-long rule. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
#13A
rebel fighter patrols in the desert south of the Libyan rebel-held town
of Zintan in the Western Mountains on May 12. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
#14A
wounded girl evacuated from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata waits
to be transported to an ambulance at the port in Benghazi on May 12.
(Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#15An
injured Libyan rebel fighter flashes a victory sign from an ambulance
after being evacuated from Misrata at the port in Benghazi on May 12.
(Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#16Libyan youths sing near a courthouse in Benghazi May 12. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
#17Rebel
fighter Abdel Rahaman Faraj, 15, grimaces as he is treated by a nurse
in a public hospital in Benghazi on May 10. Faraj was injured two
months ago in Bisher during fighting against Moammar Khadafy's troops.
(Rodrigo Abd/AP)
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18Rebel
fighter Mussa Mohammed Mussa recovers in a bed in a public hospital in
Benghazi on May 10. Mussa Mohammed was injured in Misrata May 1 during
fierce fighting and was brought to Benghazi on a fishing boat. (Rodrigo
Abd/AP)
#19A
Libyan rebel fighter walks near a checkpoint outside Ajdabiya on May
10, where fighting between rebels and forces loyal to leader Moammar
Khadafy was ongoing. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#20Libyan
children play inside a school set up by volunteers to keep the young
ones occupied in Benghazi on May 8. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#21In
this photo taken on a government-organized tour, the Marriott hotel is
seen in the background as youths enjoy the beach in Tripoli on May 3.
The Tripoli Marriott closed 10 days after it opened, as an armed
uprising swept the country. (Darko Bandic/AP)
#22A
Libyan teenager salutes as he controls traffic at a busy junction in
Benghazi on May 9. Children in Benghazi are not being sent to fight on
the frontline, but they are helping Libya's revolution by cleaning
streets, working as traffic cops, and dishing up rations to rebel
soldiers. (Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#23A man waves a national flag from the pre-Moammar Khadafy era on the seafront in Benghazi on May 11. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#24A
rebel fighter stands guard outside Kabaw in the Western Mountain region
of Libya on May 11. Fighting in the Western Mountain region, home to
the Berber ethnic minority, has intensified since the rebels seized the
Dehiba border crossing into Tunisia last month, opening a key artery for
supplies. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
#25Ramzy
Elshahiebi smokes a cigarette while assembling homemade bombs in
Benghazi. Elshahiebi used to fish with dynamite and now makes bombs
that serve the rebel army. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#26Libyan
men react as the main fuel depot in Misrata burns after a bombing by
government forces on May 7. (Ricardo Garcia Vilanova/AP)
#27People stand next to caricatures of Moammar Khadafy in Benghazi May 8. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
#28Libyan
rebels walk in a stairwell after firing a rocket-propelled grenade
towards pro-Khadafy forces from a high vantage point in Misrata on May
8. (Ricardo Garcia Vilanova/AP)
#29A
wounded rebel fighter is given aid in an ambulance at the Libyan and
Tunisian border crossing of Wazin May 8. (Zohra Bensemra/AP)
#30Tribesmen
in traditional garb ride their horses into town to declare allegiance
to the rebels in Revolution Square in Benghazi on May 4. (Saeed
Khan/AFP/Getty Images)
#31Rebel
forces celebrate upon returning to liberated territory following NATO
bombings of Khadafy forces deep inside Ajdabiya May 9. (Esam
Al-Fetori/Reuters)
#32In
this photograph made during a government-guided tour, a woman and her
daughter walk among rubble in Zawiyah on May 9. (Louafi Larbi/Reuters)
#33A
Libyan woman walks on a street of Benghazi May 9 holding a picture of
her late son, who allegedly died in a Libyan prison in 1996. (Bernat
Armangue/AP)
#34A
family fleeing from the fighting in Misrata looks at the ship that
transported them after arriving in Benghazi on May 5. (Rodrigo Abd/AP)
#35Volunteers
work to recover and bury dead bodies for health and religious reasons
in Misrata on May 4. Misrata doctors estimate that more than 1,000
people have been killed in their city in two months of fighting.
(Bernat Armangue/AP)
#36Relatives
mourn during the funeral of Abdul-Gader Al-Faitori, a rebel fighter who
died after being injured a month ago during combat in Benghazi on May
4.