Updated: August 26, 2011, 12:00 AM
In pictures: Libya's NTC requests release of assets
epa02881151 A Libyan rebel fighter guards a checkpoint near Ras Lanuf, east of Tripoli and Sirte, Libya, on 25 August 2011. Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said more than 20,000 people have died during the six-month-old rebellion to oust Muammar Gaddafi. Since February, rebels have been fighting Gaddafi's forces in a bid to end his 42 years in power. EPA/MOHAMED OMAR *** Local Caption *** 02881151.jpg
August 25, 2011: A Libyan rebel fighter washes his face in the shade of a captured tank at a checkpoint near Ras Lanuf, east of Tripoli and Sirte. Since February, rebels have been fighting Qaddafi's forces in a bid to end his 42 years in power. EPA/MOHA???
August 25, 2011: : A Libyan rebel soldier reacts after a fellow fighter (unseen) was brought in with a wound, sustained in battle with pro-Gaddafi loyalists, to the Tripoli Central Hospita. Heavy fighting continues in the Libyan capital between Qaddafi's ???
August 25, 2011: A Libyan Rebel fighter sits at a check point in Tripoli, Libya. Heavy fighting continues in the Libyan capital between Qaddafi's forces and the surging rebel presence. The Rebels, who have issued a $1.7m reward for Qaddafi's capture "dea???
August 26, 2011: Mahmoud Jibril, prime minister of the National Transitional Council (NTC), speaks during a press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul. Jibril said the West must release all of Libya's frozen assets in order???
August 25, 2011: Libyan rebel fighters stand guard over a detainee during a fight for the final push to flush out Muammar Qaddafi's forces in Abu Salim district in Tripoli. Libyan rebels stormed Tripoli's Abu Salim district, one of the main holdouts of fo???
August 25, 2011: Libyan rebel fighters fire their weapons during a fight for the final push to flush out Muammar Qaddafi's forces in Abu Salim district in Tripoli. Gaddafi taunted his Libyan enemies and their Western backers as rebel forces battled pocket???
August 25, 2011: Rebel fighters secure an area during fighting in Abu Salim in Tripoli. REUTERS/Anis Mili
August 25, 2011: Ali Tarhouni, finance minister in the rebels' National Transitional Council, speaks during a news conference in Tripoli, LIbya. Ali Tarhouni says they are moving immediately to Tripoli from its eastern stronghold city of Benghazi, as opp???
August 26, 2011: A portrait of Muammar Qaddafi on a wall covered by bullets marks is displayed on a building in the Abu Salim district, in Tripoli, Libya, where rebels had battled Qaddafi's fighters holed up in residential buildings for most of the previo???