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Thirteen people are killed as fighting occurs in Tripoli, Libya.
2022-07-22

The Libyan National Army (LNA) launches a surprise offensive in western Libya, moving units towards the Government of National Accord-held capital Tripoli, with reports of clashes in the city of Gharyan. The LNA say their operation, ordered by General Khalifa Haftar, is aimed at "cleansing the western zone from terrorist groups".
2019-04-3

Tunisia reopens its embassy in Tripoli, Libya. The embassy has been closed since the kidnap of ten staff in 2015.
2018-04-21

A car-bomb kills five guards at a checkpoint east of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
2015-11-24

Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead. The hotel was previously the location in 2013 where a former prime minister was abducted.
2015-01-27

Five Egyptian embassy staff are kidnapped in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.
2014-01-25

The president of Libya's newly elected legislative congress, Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, calls the prime minister to an emergency meeting, after Saturday's bulldozing of the Sidi el-Sha'ab mausoleum in Tripoli by unnamed organized assailants. [https:--news.yahoo.com-fighters-bulldoze-sufi-mosque-central-tripoli-172020410.html?_esi=1 (Reuters via Yahoo! News)] [http:--online.wsj.com-article-SB10000872396390444230504577613260789607638.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ("Wall Street Journal)"]
2012-08-26

The President of Libya's Olympic committee, Ahmed Nabil al Taher al Alam, is abducted in Tripoli.
2012-07-15

National Transitional Council forces in Libya began cutting off supply lines to Tripoli after a 48 hour operation capturing key towns around the capital and surrounding the city.
2011-08-16

Libyan workers fleeing to Tunisia claim that anti-Gaddafi forces control the town of Zuwarah, 120 km west of Tripoli.
2011-02-24