Titled Battle for Libya this image won the first prize for stories in the general news section of the 2011 World Press Photo awards. It shows rebel forces outside Ras Lanouf, Libya, March 2011

Photo by Remi Ochlik (an award-winning French photojournalist, who was just 29 when he died on Feb. 22, when government forces shelled a building where a growing number of foreign journalists were covering the battle in Homs, Syria. Ochlik died alongside Marie Colvin, an American who was one of Britain’s most honored combat reporters. Two other journalists were reportedly wounded in the barrage. -TIME)