A report stated that the UN resolution that authorized international intervention in Libya has the “flexibility” to allow such assistance. –Photo by AP

WASHINGTON: The United States and its allies are considering supplying weapons to the Libyan opposition, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

President Barack Obama’s administration believe the UN resolution that authorized international intervention in Libya has the “flexibility” to allow such assistance, it reported, citing unnamed US and European officials.

According to The Post, Gene Cretz, the recently withdrawn US ambassador to Libya, said administration officials were having “the full gamut” of discussions on “potential assistance we might offer, both on the non-lethal and the lethal side.” But no decisions had been made, the paper noted.

France meanwhile backed training and arming the rebels, the report added.

Obama will address the nation about his Libya strategy Monday, the White House announced Friday, as coalition forces launched a fresh wave of air and missile strikes against the Libyan regime’s forces.

Allied warplanes carried out raids late Friday on the town of Zliten, 160 kilometres  east of Tripoli, and in the western el Watiya region, Libyan state television reported.

A military site in Tripoli’s eastern Tajura suburb was also in flames after three major explosions rocked the district.

According to the White House announcement, Obama will speak to the nation from the National Defense University in Washington at 7:30pm to update Americans on the campaign so far, on plans to turn over control to Nato, and “our policy going forward.”

On Friday, the US president also briefed key congressional leaders about the operation.

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