For the first time in 42 years, Libya is without Muammar Gadhafi.
But can the war-ravaged country unite under a new government?
And just how did Gadhafi die? Now, we're taking a closer look this hour.
Now, Gadhafi had vowed that he would die rather than surrender to the revolution.
Our Dan Rivers has details from Tripoli,
but again, I need to warn you that some of the images you're about to see are disturbing.
This was how it all ended for Muammar Gadhafi. Cornered and injured, the former dictator was apparently trying to escape Sirte.
He appears bloody but alive here, but died soon afterwards, according to NTC officials.
His golden gun, brandished in wild excitement by NTC troops who seized him, a potent symbol of his decadence.
The news of his death spread rapidly across the country, disbelief turning into jubilation in Tripoli.
We are very free, and I feel that my birthday is today.
Really, I feel that I'm six hours old. Really, Libya is free without him.
We are so happy. It's the great... greatest moment in all my life. And I have my brother who was killed by Gadhafi forces on the 20th of February.
We were so, so, so sad, but now it's a great moment.We are so happy. We are so, so happy.
Many of the people here have known nothing other than Colonel Gadhafi's 42-year rule.
They cannot believe now that, finally, he is dead, that Sirte has fallen, and the war is over. Just look at the sea of flags out here in celebration.
Wow.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learnt of the news from her BlackBerry as she prepared for an interview.
Unconfirmed reports about Gadhafi being captured.
But soon, officials were confirming the momentous news, and it didn't take long for the U.S. president to react himself.
Today we can definitively say that the Gadhafi regime has come to an end. The last major regime strongholds have fallen.
The new government is consolidating the control over the country. And one of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more.
The Arab Spring came here on February the 17th, when a rebellion against Gadhafi's iron rule spread.
Now the winds of turmoil and change that are blowing so strong across the Arab world have claimed yet another victim,
and Libya is finally free of the man who so brutalized this country.