Tag: Tripoli

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Tripoli crowds cheer Libyan rebels as they take the city; pockets of resistance

  

  A convoy of Libyan rebels rolled early Monday morning into central Tripoli past celebrating crowds after a day of heavy fighting in and around the capital. Crowds on Green Square cheered them, waving flags and firing salutes.

• Monday, May 2nd 2011 - 00:14 UTC

  UN withdraws staff from Libya; NATO air strike kills son of Gaddafi

  

  UN is withdrawing all international staff from the Libyan capital Tripoli following a mob attack on its offices. UN buildings and some foreign missions were targeted by angry crowds following a NATO air strike that reportedly killed a son of Col Gaddafi.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:36 UTC

  For a third night international military coalition bombs Tripoli

  

  Loud explosions have rocked the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for a third night as forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi attempt to stop any new attack from an international military coalition enforcing a no-fly zone over the country, Al Jazeera reports.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 06:46 UTC

  Gaddafi’s compound destroyed in air strike; Libyan military announce cease-fire

  

  A three-storey building in a military command centre used by Muammar Gaddafi has been destroyed in an air strike by coalition forces. The Sunday-night strike was the first reported attack on the Bab al-Azizia, a sprawling compound in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, that Gaddafi has used several times as a setting for televised addresses, and which was bombed by the United States in 1986.

• Friday, March 18th 2011 - 04:05 UTC

  US, UK, France prepare to implement UN Security Council no-fly zone over Libya

  

  United States President Barack Obama called his British and French counterparts on Thursday and the three agreed Libya must comply with a new U.N. Security Council resolution, the White House said.
  Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy also agreed that violence against the civilian population of Libya must cease.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  EU fears massive exodus of refugees if there’s a ‘Battle for Tripoli’

  

  Europe is extremely concerned about the consequences of the instability in Libya which could mean a humanitarian crisis of proportions if Libyans take to the sea and try to reach the European continent in look of food, hope and jobs, warned the EU Commissioner for Food Aid Kristalina Georgieva.

• Thursday, February 24th 2011 - 16:51 UTC

  Gadaffi on state TV by phone call blames Bin Laden for the protests

  

  Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has told state TV that Osama Bin Laden and his followers are to blame for the protests wracking his country.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2011 - 06:23 UTC

  Gaddafi denies he fled to Venezuela while cracks begin to appear in the regime

  

  Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appeared Monday on state television signalling his defiance in the face of a mounting revolt against his 41-year rule.