Renewed clashes erupt in Tripoli
Source: The Daily Star
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-08 16:33:38 -0700 | travel-news
Tension between rival neighborhoods erupted in the northern city of Tripoli Monday evening with sounds of sporadic gunfire and hand grenades, amid a heavy military presence in the troubled area. The latest clash was instigated after a resident of Jabal...
Libya's future looks bleak as media focus turns elsewhere
Source: The Independent
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-06 16:45:22 -0700 | travel-news
Topics The second anniversary of Nato's intervention on the side of the Libyan rebels and against Muammar Gaddafi passed with scarcely a mention by foreign governments and media who were so concerned about the security and human rights of the...
Libya Intervention More Questionable in Rear View Mirror
Source: Inter Press Service
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-04 18:18:25 -0700 | travel-news
While the tenth anniversary last month of Washington's invasion of Iraq provoked overwhelmingly negative reviews of the adventure except among its most die-hard neo-conservative proponents, a more recent albeit far less dramatic and costly intervention has faded almost completely from...
Gunmen attack Tripoli police station, release detainees
Source: The Daily Star
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-04 07:29:47 -0700 | travel-news
Members of the police inspect the damage after an attack on the police station in the Abu Salim district of Tripoli April 4, 2013. Masked gunmen attacked a police station in the Libyan capital on Thursday, tying the hands of...
Volunteers crisscross borders as Islamist extremism goes global
Source: The Globe & Mail
Benghazi :: Libya | updated 2013-04-03 20:45:54 -0700 | travel-news
Support Israel/Defeat Jihad" in the Times Square subway station in New York Reuters video AP Video video The flow of jihadists to Syria from the stronghold of Libya's most radical militia groups is just one sign of the rapid internationalization of...
Violence thwarts aid efforts in Libya
Source: United Press International
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-03 10:18:14 -0700 | travel-news
Humanitarian relief operations are complicated by fighting in Libya, an International Committee of the Red Cross volunteer said. Libya has struggled with national security issues since the civil war in 2011. Internal rivalries have complicated a tense security situation exacerbated...
Libya says it should be allowed to try spy chief
Source: The Boston Globe
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-03 04:10:25 -0700 | travel-news
Netherlands (AP) Libya has formally applied to the International Criminal Court to be allowed to put Moammar Gadhafi's former spy chief on trial in Tripoli instead of sending him to The Hague to face justice. In a lengthy submission published...
Libyan state TV suspends work over security row
Source: The Boston Globe
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-02 13:23:55 -0700 | travel-news
Libya (AP) Staff members at Libya's state TV news channel have suspended work indefinitely after an employee was allegedly assaulted by a member of a militia guarding their building. Live shows were cancelled, and Libya al-Wataniya was airing only archive...
Report: Ex-minister says Gadhafi ordered Lockerbie
Source: Taiwan News
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-01 09:41:26 -0700 | travel-news
Swedish tabloid Expressen says Libya's ex-justice minister claims Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988. Expressen on Wednesday quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as telling their correspondent in Libya that "I have proof that Gadhafi gave...
Libyan PM's top aide 'kidnapped'
Source: BBC
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-04-01 06:35:42 -0700 | travel-news
s aide Mohamed al-Ghattous 'kidnapped' A top aide to Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been kidnapped on the outskirts of the capital, Tripoli, government officials say. Mohamed al-Ghattous is believed to have been seized late on Sunday in the...
Refugees of Libyan War Protest at World Social Forum
Source: Inter Press Service
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-31 10:45:41 -0700 | travel-news
IPS Articles During this week's World Social Forum , held in Tunis, a group of 50 refugees made it to the capital to demand a solution...The hunger strikers pledged to continue their fast until a solution was found...In my country...
Libya's Christians tense as Easter festivities begin
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-31 00:58:35 -0700 | travel-news
Churches in Libya tighten holiday security in concern for safety of congregants from possible threats from Islamist militants. An Egyptian Coptic Church that was set on fire is seen in Benghazi March 14, 2013. Esam Al-Fetori Churches in Libya's capital,...
Two killed in attack on Libyan military camp
Source: The Daily Star
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-30 23:29:44 -0700 | travel-news
A member of the Libyan army is seen at the Mellitah Oil and Gas complex, located 100 km west of Tripoli March 4, 2013. Two Libyan military officers were killed and three soldiers injured when unknown assailants forced their way...
Gunmen attack Libyan military air base, killing 2
Source: The Boston Globe
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-30 10:06:59 -0700 | travel-news
Libya (AP) A Libyan military spokesman says more than 150 gunmen have attacked an air base in the country's southern desert, killing two government troops. Saad al-Orfi says the attack early Saturday targeted a military air base about 45 kilometers...
Libyan official: 3 activists raped by militiamen
Source: The Daily Star
Tripoli :: Libya | updated 2013-03-29 17:42:31 -0700 | travel-news
Three female British activists of Pakistani origin were raped by Libyan pro-government militiamen in the eastern city of Benghazi, after joining an aid convoy bound for Gaza to break an Israeli blockade, officials from several countries confirmed on Friday.
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