LIBYA-CONFLICT

Tens of thousands of Libyans celebrate the arrest of Kadhafi’s son Saif al-islam and the partial fall of Tripoli in the hands of the Libyan rebels on August 21, 2011 in Benghazi, Libya. Libyan rebels surged into Tripoli Sunday in a final drive to oust Moamer Kadhafi, seizing swathes of the capital including symbolic Green Square and arresting the strongman’s son, Seif al-Islam. Thousands of residents poured onto the streets to welcome the rebels, congregating at the site which the renamed Martyrs Square near the water front in the centre of Tripoli. AFP PHOTO/GIANLUIGI GUERCIA