Gaddafi and his two sons are hiding south of Tripoli.
The dictator's third son, according to the ANSA news agency, is almost certainly dead.
Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saadi and Saif al-Islam are in the Libyan city of Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, the Italian news agency Ansa reported on Monday, citing "Libyan diplomatic sources." Ansa used the same source in Rome which had earlier stated that Gaddafi's wife, Safiya, two other sons, Hannibal and Mohammed, and daughter Aisha had fled to Algeria. The Algerian Foreign Ministry later confirmed that Gaddafi's wife, daughter, sons, and some grandchildren are in Algeria.
The Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera also reported that Gaddafi is in Bani Walid.
Ansa reports that another of Gaddafi's sons, Khamis, is "almost certainly" dead and that he likely lost his life during the retreat from Tripoli to Bani Walid.
On Sunday, Libyan insurgents said that Khamis, whose death had been announced several times, was killed in a clash in the city of Tarhuna, southeast of Tripoli.
Bani Walid is located 100 kilometers south of Tripoli. Last week, former Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Salem Jalloud, who fled to Rome, said that Gaddafi was hiding south of Tripoli. "There are two possibilities: either he is hiding south of Tripoli or he left the country some time ago," Jalloud said.
The leader of the rebels' National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, warned on Monday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should not abandon attacks against Gaddafi's forces, saying that he "is still a danger not only to Libya but to the rest of the world."
"That is why we continue to ask the coalition to continue supporting us," Abdel Jalil said at a meeting with the chiefs of staff of the countries involved in the Libyan conflict.