Battle for Tripoli, ongoing conflict in Libya

Rebel fighters roam Moammar Kadafi‘s looted Bab Azizia compound in Tripoli.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

A rebel fighter climbs on top of a statue inside Moammar Kadafi‘s compound Bab al-Aziziya.   (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

Rebel fighters gesture atop a monument inside the main Moammar Kadafi Bab Azizia compound in Tripoli.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

Rebel fighters shoot into the air to celebrate overrunning Moammar Kadafi‘s Bab Azizia compound.   (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

In Tripoli, a man places ripped-down flag of the Kadafi government in the road for cars to drive over.  (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

Libyans hold a large pre-1969 national flag, the banner adopted by rebel forces, as they celebrate in the newly renamed Martyrs’ Square, formerly known as Green Square, after rebel forces overran Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi‘s headquarters in Tripoli.   (Mahmud Turkia / AFP / Getty Images)

A girl flashes the victory sign as she rides through the Libyan capital.  (Filippo Monteforte / AFP / Getty Images)

Rebel fighters trample a head of Moammar Kadafi inside the Bab Azizia compound.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

A rebel shoots in the air at a checkpoint in Tripoli.  (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

Journalists sit it out in a hallway as gun battles continue around the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli. Dozens of journalists were trapped inside as forces loyal to Moammar Kadafi prevented them from leaving.   (Dario Lopez-Mills / Associated Press)

Rebel fighters advance to a front line during fighting in Tripoli.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

An explosion is seen near Moammar Kadafi‘s main compound in the Bab al-Aziziya district in Tripoli.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

A rebel fighter holds the identification card of a pro-Kadafi soldier.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

Rebel fighters observe fighting near Moammar Kadafi‘s main compound in the Bab al-Aziziya district of Tripoli.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

A rebel fighter in downtown Tripoli early Tuesday.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

Late Monday, boys walk along a dark street in Tripoli.   (Filippo Monteforte / AFP/Getty Images)

Libyan rebel fighters embrace at the former female military base in Tripoli. Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of the Libyan capital on Monday after their lightning advance on Tripoli heralded the fall of Moammar Kadafi‘s regime, but scattered battles erupted and the mercurial leader’s whereabouts remained unknown.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

Journalists work in a hallway of the Rixos hotel in Tripoli. The Rixos hotel houses top government officials, foreign journalists and state television facilities but is still under the control of forces loyal to Libya’s Moammar Kadafi. with dozens of journalist trapped, unable to leave.   (Dario Lopez-Mills / Associated Press)

Residents greet advancing rebel fighters on the outskirts of Tripoli. Clashes broke out early Monday near Moammar Kadafi‘s compound in Tripoli, a day after rebels poured into the Libyan capital in a stunning advance that met little resistance from the regime’s defenders.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

Libyan rebel fighters from the Tripoli brigade deface a portrait of Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi in Tripoli. Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of the Libyan capital on Monday.   (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)

People in the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi celebrate the capture in Tripoli of Moammar Kadafi‘s son and onetime heir apparent, Seif Islam.   (Alexandre Meneghini / Associated Press)

In Benghazi, Libyans gather to rejoice over news of the capture of Moammar Kadafi‘s son Seif Islam.   (Alexandre Meneghini / Associated Press)

Thousands of Libyans in Tripoli celebrate news of the arrest of Moammar Kadafi‘s son Seif Islam Kadafi and the advance of rebels in the capital.   (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty Images)

A Libyan man takes part in the celebration in Tripoli.  (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty Images)

The jubilant crowd in Tripoli holds a youth aloft.  (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty Images)

Libyan rebels’ chief of staff Gen. Abdul Fatah Younis is seen in April, meeting with rebel fighters at the front line near Port Brega. He was killed as he returned to Benghazi from the same area as rebels make a new push there.   (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)

Tanks damaged by coalition airstrikes are seen through a hole in a wall of the General Company for Pharmaceutical Industry building in Tripoli, Libya. According to media sources, Libyan rebels trying to advance toward the capital clashed with leader Moammar Kadafi’s troops in western Libya. The rebels were nearing Zlitan, one of three towns separating the opposition-controlled city of Misurata and Tripoli, where Kadafi remains firmly in control, according to broadcaster Al Jazeera.  (Mohamed Messara / EPA)

A rebel holds a flier dropped by NATO aircraft on Kadafi troops that reads in Arabic, “NATO forces will take all necessary measures to destroy military equipment that threatens civilians. Stop and stay away from fighting now or when you see this helicopter it will be too late,” at the frontline in Dafniya, about 25 miles west of Misurata.  (Hassan Ammar / Associated Press)

Libyan rebel fighters pile into their pickup truck after capturing the village of Ryayna along the Nafusa mountain front line following fighting between the rebels and soldiers loyal to leader Moammar Kadafi.  (Colin Summers / AFP / Getty Images)

About 100 demonstrators shout slogans against Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi’s regime and in support of the Syrian uprising against President Bashar Assad as they demonstrate on Benghazi’s seaside promenade.  (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty Images)

Demonstrators at the Benghazi protest shout slogans against Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi’s regime and President Bashar Assad of Syria.  (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP / Getty Images)

Libyan boys sit on a destroyed tank in Misurata, Libya.  (Hassan Ammar / Los Angeles Times)