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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signalled that his country is ready to become a mediator to help attain an early ceasefire in Libya over fears that the country could turn into a "second Iraq" or "another Afghanistan".

Kanybek Imanaliev MP at an OSCE-supported event on a national strategy for Kyrgyzstan’s inter-ethnic relations, Bishkek, 28 March 2011.

Libyan women hold pictures of leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli earlier this month during a protest against the U.N. resolution authorizing a no-fly zone. The government wants Tripoli to seem like a place full of people who revere Gadhafi. There are signs, however, that Gadhafi's grip on the capital could be loosening.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) holds press conference with Secretary General of Arab League Amre M. Moussa

The U.S. military said Tuesday that an Air Force fighter jet crashed in Libya but was not shot down, as coalition forces bombarded the North African nation for a third straight night.

Final results of Saturday's historic referendum show that 77.2 percent of voters have backed constitutional changes in what was the freest vote in Egypt in more than half a century, but opponents say the result give an unfair advantage to Islamist-dominant entities such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the former ruling National Democratic Party.

"The California desert looks a lot like much of Iraq — which makes it an ideal training ground for military units about to deploy — and nothing like Cambridge. The former is a small town dominated by the massive Marine Corps base nearby and filled with a few thousand aggressive young men with clipped hair," said Sayce Falk, a former Marine and second-year graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School.

A man looks over at the empty pumps of a filling station near the town of Noda.

Libyan rebels celebrate in Benghazi on Thursday after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya.