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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A military convoy affiliated with the parliament-backed administration of Fathi Bashagha was heading towards Tripoli on Saturday f...

The violence early on Saturday comes in the wake of a build-up of rival forces in Tripoli over the past week.

Clashes and gunfire between rival armed groups rocked Libyan capital Tripoli on Saturday (August 27). At least one person has been killed and fears of an all-out conflict have risen in the country amid political crisis. The fighting followed months of tensions between  two administrations vying for control of the North African country and its vast oil resources Small arms fire and explosions rocked several districts of Tripoli overnight and into Saturday, when smoke could be seen rising from da...

The forces of Major-General Salem Jeha are approaching the eastern entrance of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Rival armed groups exchanged gunfire in the Libyan capital Saturday, killing at least one person and raising fears of all-out conflict in a country embroiled in a grave political crisis.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A military convoy affiliated with the parliament-backed administration of Fathi Bashagha was heading towards Tripoli on Saturday f...

Rival factions battled across Libya's capital on Saturday in the worst fighting there for two years as an eyewitness said forces aligned with a parliament-backed administration moved on the city to try…

Small arms fire and explosions rock several districts of Tripoli

  Rival factions battled across Libya's capital, Tripoli on Saturday in the worst fighting there for two years as an eyewitness said forces aligned with a parliament-backed administration moved on the city to try to take power. Reuters reports that the Tripoli government's health ministry gave a preliminary death toll of 12 people, with 87 injured, but did not say how many were civilians or fighters.

On the night of 4 August, 2011, Mustafa Naji Al-Morabit, his mother Fatima ‘Omar Mansur, wife, Ibtisam, and three children: Motaz three, Mohamed six and Naji nine years old, were all asleep in Mu...