Tripoli

The United Nations mission in Libya has urged authorities to investigate the shooting deaths of 10 people in a Tripoli neighborhood, with city security chiefs saying the victims included two members of a powerful armed faction. The UN…
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Libyan Government of National Unity Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah thanked Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for reopening the Kingdom’s embassy in Tripoli, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday.…
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A leader of the Daesh group who allegedly planned and sponsored three deadly attacks in the Libyan capital Tripoli in 2018 has been captured, the country’s prime minister said Thursday. “Our forces apprehended on Tuesday a leader of the…
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Saudi Arabia expressed deep concern over recent armed clashes in Libya’s capital on Wednesday. Tripoli’s worst armed clashes in a year have killed 55 people and wounded 146, Libyan media reported as a truce took hold. Fighting erupted…
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Gun battles between two leading armed groups in the Libyan capital Tripoli have killed 27 people and wounded 106, a toll update from the Emergency Medicine Center said Wednesday. The center, which provides emergency services in the west…
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Clashes broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli late on Monday, residents said, after the reported seizure of a powerful armed faction commander by a rival force. “We have heard gunfire for almost two hours now and we do not know what…
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Italy’s prime minister held talks in Libya on Saturday with officials from the country’s west-based government focusing on energy and migration, top issues for Italy and the European Union. During the visit, the two countries’ oil companies…
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Libya’s Fathi Bashagha, appointed as prime minister in a challenge to a unity government in Tripoli, plans to take office in the capital “in the coming days,” he said. Libya’s parliament picked the former interior minister in February to…
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Armed groups deployed on Tuesday in suburbs of Libya’s capital, witnesses and local media said, as the country awaited the postponement of a presidential election supposed to take place in three days. On Tuesday morning, images posted…
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Yahya Nabil Kabbara has always been perceived as academically distinguished, but not athletically, due to being subjected to nightmarish waves of bullying over his obesity since childhood. A Lebanese math teacher, Kabbara chose his own…
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