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News of Tripoli
Three soldiers killed in attack in Libya's Benghazi
Unknown assailants threw an explosive device at a military checkpoint in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi early on Wednesday, killing three soldiers and injuring three others, security officials said. The attack was the latest in a wave of violence against security forces in the city, the cradle (...)

29 - 05 - 2013
Deal with ex-rebels ends crisis at Libya's Foreign Ministry
Gunmen ended a nearly two-week siege of Libya's Foreign Ministry in the capital after reaching a deal with the government, its Supreme Security Committee said late on Saturday. In the oil-rich east, meanwhile, hundreds of leaders agreed to join forces to defend their territory against similar armed (...)

12 - 05 - 2013
Libya building collapse kills 5 including 2 Egyptians
A three floors building collapsed in Kheir district in Tripoli on Friday killing at least five including two reported to be Egyptian nationals. Security sources told the Middle East News Agency (MENA), that the collapsed building dated back to 1918 and fell due to cracks in its main walls. Those (...)

10 - 05 - 2013
Ahly begin life after El-Badry with league win over Bani Suef Telephones
Ahly began life after coach Hossam El-Badry with a 2-1 Egyptian Premier League win over Bani Suef Telephones that gave his successor Mohamed Youssef a winning start on Wednesday. Diminutive left-back Ahmed Shedid put Ahly ahead with a curling free kick midway through the first half but Sherif Reda (...)

08 - 05 - 2013
Libyan parliament bans ex-Gaddafi officials from office
Libya's parliament voted on Sunday to ban anyone who held a senior position during Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule from government, a move which could unseat the prime minister and other top officials regardless of their part in toppling the dictator. Politicians debated the draft law for months, (...)

06 - 05 - 2013
Gunmen besiege Libyan foreign ministry to ban Gaddafi officials from work
Gunmen surrounded Libya's foreign ministry on Sunday to push demands that officials who had worked for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi's government be banned from senior positions in the new administration. At least 20 pick-up trucks loaded with anti-aircraft guns blocked the roads while men armed (...)

28 - 04 - 2013
BREAKING: Libyan plane shot at as lands at Tripoli: Airline sources
A Libyan passenger plane was shot at as it prepared to land at Tripoli airport on Wednesday evening but sustained no major damage, airline sources said. "As the plane prepared to land at Tripoli airport, it was hit on the bottom, in the lavatory at the front of the plane," a Buraq Air source said. (...)

17 - 04 - 2013
Aide to Libyan PM freed a week after abduction
A senior adviser to Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been freed just over a week after unknown abductors snatched him from his car in a Tripoli suburb, the government said on Tuesday. Since the end of the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, transitional rulers in the oil-producing North (...)

09 - 04 - 2013
Libya journalist held for anti-corruption work
Libyan newspaper editor Amara Abdalla al-Khatabi has been detained incommunicado since 19 December 2012. He has been charged with defamation, as his newspaper published a list of judges it said were involved in corruption. Amara Abdalla al-Khatabi, 67-year-old editor-in-chief of the Libyan daily (...)

26 - 02 - 2013
BREAKING: Gunmen attack minister's convoy in north Lebanon, 4 hurt
Gunmen fired on a ministerial convoy in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Friday, a Reuters witness said, injuring at least four people and riddling a security patrol car with bullets. The attack did not appear to hit the Minister of Sports and Youth Faisal Karami, medics said. However, Karami (...)

18 - 01 - 2013
Head of Libya''s parliament survives assassination attempt
TRIPOLI — The head of Libya's parliament survived an assassination attempt unharmed at his home in the remote desert interior of the country, his spokesperson said Sunday. Mohamed al-Magariaf's residence in Sabha, 800 km south of the capital Tripoli, came under gunfire Thursday evening. "[He] was (...)

06 - 01 - 2013
Libyan oil terminal halted by demonstrators
Protests have forced a major oil port in easternLibyato shut down its operations for a fourth day, the deputy oil minister said on Wednesday. Al-Zuweitina Oil port, 790 km east of Tripoli, receives oil pumped from at least three oil fields in the Libyan desert and is responsible for exporting 60 to (...)

27 - 12 - 2012
Libyan assembly rejects cabinet, dismisses PM
Libyan premier Mustafa Abu Shagur was dismissed on Sunday after the General National Congress rejected his proposed "crisis" cabinet of just 10 ministers, days after his first line-up was also turned down. The embattled Abu Shagur, who had been given 72 hours to come up with a new cabinet, was (...)

07 - 10 - 2012
Libya must protect two sisters from harassment, says rights group
The Libyan authorities must put an end to the harassment and intimidation of two sisters allegedly accused of supporting the country's former leader, Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi. Hasna Shaeeb and her sister Hala have been threatened, arbitrarily detained, interrogated and released without charge (...)

18 - 09 - 2012
Libyan Olympic chief taken by gunmen in Tripoli
Libya's Olympic committee president was taken from his car by gunmen in Tripoli on Sunday and his whereabouts are unknown, colleagues said. Nabil Elalem was in his car with a colleague when two cars carrying men in military-style clothing blocked them off, another colleague, Arafat Jwan, (...)

16 - 07 - 2012
Libya: Two TV cameramen abducted and held in Bani Walid
unreservedly condemns the abduction and continuing detention of Libyan cameraman Abdelqader Fosouk and Youssuf Badi in Bani Walid (150 km southeast of Tripoli), one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds to fall to the rebels during last year's war. They have been held since 7 July, the day of (...)

10 - 07 - 2012
Libyans vote in first-ever democratic elections
Voting started Saturday amidst tension, uncertainty and violence in Libya's first-ever democratic elections following the ouster and killing of Muammar Gaddafi and the end of his 42-year rule. Armed men angry at the distribution of seats shot down a Libyan Air Force helicopter carrying ballots and (...)

08 - 07 - 2012
ICC sends team to Libya after delegation detained
Representatives of the International Criminal Court arrived in Tripoli on Sunday to try to secure the release of a detained delegation visiting Muammar Gaddafi's captured son, a Libyan official said. The four-member delegation was being held in the western mountain town of Zintan after one of (...)

11 - 06 - 2012
BREAKING: Armed men surround Tripoli airport
A Libyan armed brigade surrounded Tripoli's international airport on Monday forcing flights to be diverted to the capital's military airport, a security official said. The official said the group called al-Awfea Brigade from the town of Tarhouna, 80 km southeast of Tripoli, demanded the release (...)

04 - 06 - 2012
Seven dead, 30 wounded in north Lebanon clashes
TRIPOLI - Seven people were killed and 30 wounded in Lebanon's port city of Tripoli on Saturday in clashes between Lebanese supporters and opponents of a popular uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an army doctor at the scene said. Residents of neighbouring districts have fought (...)

02 - 06 - 2012
Libya police end Agoco protest, secure offices
Libyan security forces have put an end to a protest that closed off the headquarters of the country's biggest oil company for two weeks, securing the offices and arresting some demonstrators overnight, officials said on Wednesday. A spokesman for Benghazi-based Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco) (...)

09 - 05 - 2012
Libya PM office attacked by gunmen
The office of Libya's interim prime minister in the capital, Tripoli, has been attacked by gunmen believed to be ex-rebels demanding payment. Mohamed Alsabee, from the PM's media office, has told the BBC there was gunfire inside the building. A dozen pick-up trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns (...)

08 - 05 - 2012
Libya's biggest oil refinery faces restart delay
Libya's largest refinery, Ras Lanuf, which produces 220,000 barrels per day, is unlikely to restart for at least another month after a meeting between board members and shareholders, an official at the refinery operator Libyan Emirati Refining Co (Lerco) told Reuters. Lerco is a joint-venture (...)

26 - 04 - 2012
Libya militias agree to ceasefire after deadly clashes
TRIPOLI — Rival militias in the Libyan city of Sabha called a ceasefire on Wednesday after three days of clashes that killed nearly 50 people and highlighted the government's failure to restore law and order nationwide. Ahmed Abdelqadir, a local council member in Sabha, said representatives from (...)

28 - 03 - 2012
Libya militias agree ceasefire after deadly clashes
Rival militias in the Libyan city of Sabha called a ceasefire on Wednesday after three days of clashes that killed nearly 50 people and highlighted the government's failure to restore law and order nationwide. Ahmed Abdelqadir, a local council member in Sabha, said representatives from the Sabha (...)

28 - 03 - 2012
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