Turkey’s Foreign Minister Visits Libya
www.dawn.com -TRIPOLI: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held talks in Tripoli on Thursday with the head of Libya’s…
Tripoli is the capital city and the largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.165 million people in 2018. It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay. — Wikipedia
TRIPOLI: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held talks in Tripoli on Thursday with the head of Libya’s…
Libya unity govt claims full control of Tripoli, suburbs
Khalifa Hifter, 76, a former army general and one-time CIA asset, has fought for years to try to rule Libya as a new strongman.
Libya’s UN-backed western government has begun cleaning up the capital Tripoli of mines and unexploded ordinance. The United Nations says mines in the area have killed more than 80 civilians and near…
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio visited Tripoli on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj of Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), the GNA…
The Tripoli forces, backed by Turkey, gained the upper hand last week after retaking the capital’s airport, all main entrance and exit points to the city and a string of key towns near Tripoli
Airport was closed in 2014 and overrun by troops loyal to eastern-based military commander Khalifa Haftar last year.
Announcement comes after Government of National Accord forces retook the capital’s civilian airport.
The Interior Ministry of the U.N.-supported government said three Libyans on Tuesday stormed a factory in a Tripoli neighborhood where African migrants were working. The Libyans detained one…
Killings took place in Mezdah, 150km south of capital Tripoli, the interior ministry said.
The fighting for Tripoli has left hundreds dead and forced 200,000 to flee their homes.
The USS Tripoli was made at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula and was recently commissioned there.