A woman looks at pictures of anti-Gadhafi fighters, killed during the current revolution, hanging on the wall of a court house in Liberation square in Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 10.

Rebel fighters receive training on how to use a mortar at a military camp in Benghazi, Libya, March 30, 2011. According to media sources, Libyan rebels were on the retreat on Wednesday, after losing ground overnight to Muammar Gadhafi's forces. Rebels retreated from Bin Jawad and Brega as Libyan armed forces pushed forward to retake the strategic towns. Gadhafi's forces also routed rebels from the nearby oil port of Ras Lanuf, pushing the front line further eastward.

Egyptians celebrate on the beach the success of the popular revolt that drove veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak from power after 30 years, during a rally in the northern port of Alexandria on Feb. 15.