Tag: Tripoli

Muammar Gaddafi troops in counter-attack south of Tripoli

Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday tried to re-take a village south of the capital seized by rebels a week ago,...

Libyan rebels battle in plains south of Tripoli

Libyan rebels fighting to oust Moamer Gaddafi pressed ahead on Thursday with day two of a NATO-backed offensive after seizing a desert hamlet some...

Libyan rebels push towards Tripoli on two fronts

Rebel fighters seized a village south of the Libyan capital and another group advanced towards Tripoli from the east on Wednesday in the biggest...

Libyan rebels advance towards Tripoli

Libyan rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi have pushed to within about 80 km (50 miles) of the capital, a rebel spokesman told Reuters...

NATO counts on Tripoli uprising to break deadlock

NATO is trying to lay the groundwork for an armed uprising inside the Libyan capital to oust Muammar Gaddafi because it has lost hope...

NATO counts on Tripoli uprising to break deadlock

NATO is trying to lay the groundwork for an armed uprising inside the Libyan capital to oust Muammar Gaddafi because it has lost hope...

Toddlers among 9 dead in ‘NATO raid’ on Tripoli

Libyan officials showed reporters five bodies, two of them of toddlers, they said were among nine civilians killed in a “barbaric” NATO air raid...

Rebels make western advances on Tripoli road

Libyan rebels captured two western villages on the road to Tripoli on Wednesday, as NATO insisted it could complete its mission without putting soldiers...

Blasts in Tripoli, Libya says military compounds hit

Explosions shook Tripoli on Tuesday in what the Libyan government said were NATO air strikes on military compounds in the capital, a day after...

Powerful explosions shake centre of Tripoli

Four explosions shook the centre of the Libyan capital Tuesday, sending plumes of smoke billowing across an area in which strongman Muammer Gaddafi has...

Libyan rebels advance as NATO bombing rocks Tripoli

A NATO bombing blitz which the alliance insisted was not aimed at Moamer Gaddafi rocked Tripoli on Tuesday, as rebels in besieged Misrata claimed...

NATO jets bomb Tripoli, Aziziyah and Sirte

RIPOLI - NATO air strikes on Tuesday hit the Libyan capital Tripoli, Sirte, Moamer Kadhafi's home town, and the town of Aziziyah, south of the capital, the official news agency JANA reported.

Terror in Tripoli as Gaddafi set for battle

TRIPOLI - Terrified residents on Saturday braced for bloody battles in an eerily quiet Tripoli after Moamer Gaddafi's forces prepared to defend the city from a rebellion controlling much of the rest of the country.
UN Security Council envoys embarked on tough negotiations over how to sanction the Libyan leader for his deadly offensive on opposition protesters. The escalating revolt to overthrow Gaddafi, which a Libyan diplomat to the UN said has killed thousands, has seen

Pakistanis asked to contact embassy in Tripoli

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Office said on Saturday that Pakistani expatriates had been advised to maintain close contact with their embassy in Tripoli owing to deteriorating situation there.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said the Foreign Ministry was closely following the developments in Libya and added that a special task force had been set up in the ministry to monitor the situation round the clock and to provide assistance to the Pakistani expatriates.
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Tripoli clashes claim 160 lives

CAIRO/LONDON - Clashes in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday left 160 people dead, Arabiya television quoted eyewitnesses as saying. The Arab satellite channel gave the number in a newsflash, without providing further details. Tripoli residents gave conflicting reports on Monday, with some saying they could hear gunfire in the Libyan capital and a political activist telling Al Jazeera warplanes were bombing the city.
"We don't know what is going on, all we can hear are