• Dozens of journalists freed from Tripoli hotel

    By Rich Shulman

    I was impressed yesterday how bored the journalists in the Rixos Hotel appeared to be. Today's photo of their rescue by the Red Cross gives some indication how scary it probably was. Full story.

    Paul Hackett / Reuters

    Jomana Karadsheh, a producer for CNN and Matthew Chance, Senior International Correspondent for CNN are evacuated by the International Red Cross from the Rixos hotel in Tripoli August 24.

    Western journalists held by Gadhafi loyalists in the Rixos hotel in Libya's capital, Tripoli, have been freed. Msnbc's Thomas Roberts reports.

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  • Journalists in Tripoli held in Rixos Hotel

    By Rich Shulman

    I really like these behind-the-scenes images that show how glamorous the job of an international journalist can be. Full story.

    Update: NBC's Richard Engel (video below) reports that these journalists are being held at the hotel by Gadhafi loyalists.

    Paul Hackett / Reuters

    Members of the media gather in a corridor at the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli August 23.

    In Libya, the rebels have broken through and taken control of Moammar Gadhafi's fortified compound, where they were both celebrating and looting. NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reports from Tripoli.

  • Paul Hackett / Reuters

    The Libyan state television set is seen abandoned at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli on August 22. Heavy gunfire rang out near the Tripoli hotel, where members of the foreign media are staying, a Reuters correspondent at the hotel said on Sunday.

    Transmission interrupted: abandoned set of Libyan state television in Rixos hotel, Tripoli

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    The BBC's Matthew Price reports that staff from Libyan state television, who have worked out of the Rixos hotel in Tripoli since their headquarters were bombed by Nato, left the hotel over the weekend, as did translators working with the foreign media and the relatives of senior officials. "We dined in flak jackets," Price writes, as the fighting outside got closer to the hotel. Read his blog.