Tripoli

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Tuesday welcomed the new security arrangements in the capital Tripoli approved by Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Serraj.UNSMIL welcomes the so-called Greater Tripoli Security Plan and looks…

Sources close to the commander of the self-styled army in eastern Libya, Khalifa Haftar, told Egypt-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on Sunday that the forces in east Libya are ready to secure any electoral process in regions under…

The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) praised on Saturday the new security arrangements in the Libyan capital Tripoli adopted by the Government of National Accord."UNSMIL welcomes the progress made by the Greater Tripoli Security…

Libya has reopened the only functioning airport (Mitiga Airport) in the capital Tripoli again after rockets fired in its direction forced a brief closure, officials said on Tuesday, days after flights had resumed following an earlier…

At the invitation of French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian, Ministers and high representatives of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Niger, Italy, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, the European Union,…

The Government of National Accord (GNA) welcomed "the return of calm" after the battle for power between militias left at least 117 dead and more than 400 injured since it broke out in the capital's southern suburbs on August 27,…

An estimated 5,000 families were forced to leave their homes in Tripoli to seek refuge in other areas of the Libyan capital due to clashes between militias that started on August 26 and ended, at least for the time being, yesterday with…

Tripoli Protection Force, affiliated with Libya’s UN-backed unity government, assumed control of the capital’s southern districts on Tuesday, according to a local security source. The force assumed control of Tripoli’s Al-qaklia military…

France said on Monday it wanted the U.N. Security Council to implement sanctions on militias involved in month-long clashes between rival factions in Libya’s capital Tripoli.“In the face of the worsening security situation in…

More than 1,700 families have been displaced by fighting in Libya's war-ravaged capital over the last 48 hours, the UN has said, as clashes between rival groups intensify. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said…

Half a million children are in “immediate danger” in Libya’s capital Tripoli due to fighting, the United Nations children’s fund Unicef said on Monday.Unicef said Monday that “over 1,200 families have been displaced in the past 48…

At least 115 people have been killed and 383 injured in month-long clashes between rival factions in Tripoli, Libya’s health ministry said Sunday.At the Frontline in Tripoli’s southern residential areas of Wadi Rabea and Fatma…

Misrata revolutionary brigades and military council as well as leaders of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous announced Saturday in a televised statement that they are joining the battle of Tripoli "to purify it from the militias." The statement…

The EU Delegation and the EU Heads of Mission to Libya have strongly condemned the latest escalation of violence in Tripoli which has caused civilian fatalities, injured and displaced people, and the destruction of critical infrastructure.…

The Secretary-General said he is alarmed by the increasing number of violations of the ceasefire agreement signed by armed groups in Tripoli on 4 September under the auspices of his Special Representative, Ghassan Salamé.He extended…

Clashes in southern Tripoli have killed 96 and injured more than 300 since it began on August 26, said the Injured Affairs Department of the Libyan Ministry of Health on Friday.The department said that 11 people, mostly civilians, were…

Several have been injured on Thursday as violent clashes renewed in areas in southern Tripoli between the coalition of Sumood Brigade and 7th Brigade of Tarhouna and the armed groups positioned in Tripoli under the Government of…

The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday called on armed groups south of capital Tripoli -- which have been fighting intermittently since late last month -- to immediately commit to a ceasefire. “UNSMIL calls on…

Clashes renewed in Tripoli on the Airport Road and other areas in southern Tripoli on Tuesday.The fresh violence came to break the ceasefire that was brokered on September 04 by the Head of the UNSMIL Ghassan Salame.The…

The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sirraj, has ordered ,in a new decision on Sunday, the Special Deterrence Force (SDF) to leave Mitiga Airport in Tripoli for the apparatuses of the Interior Ministry. The SDF is…