Benghazi security plan lacks sufficient troops
Jan 29 Nigel Ash

Benghazi security plan lacks sufficient troops

By Ahmed Ruhayem.Benghazi 29 January 2013:Last Thursday in Benghazi there were at least five killings, none thought to be terror-related. The same day...

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Jan 23 Nigel Ash

Firework fun turns to tragedy in Tripoli

Tripoli, 23 January 2013:By eleven o’clock this evening, more than 120 people, mostly children, had been admitted to Tripoli hospitals, with injuries...

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Red Cross focuses on training
Jan 18 thomwestcott

Red Cross focuses on training

Tripoli, 18 January:The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Libyan Red Crescent are increasingly moving towards training rather th...

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Jan 8 Michel Cousins

Libyan deaths in Istanbul "not at police college"

Tripoli, 8 January 2013:The three Libyan students at a police officer training academy in Istanbul who died from carbon monoxide poisoning did not die...

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Dec 29 tomlittle

Incident between SSC and police to be investigated

Tripoli, 29 December:An investigation will be carried out into clashes that took place between members of the police force and the Supreme Security Co...

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Dec 29 tomlittle

Twenty Somalis killed in accident on Khoms-Zliten road

Tripoli, 29 December 2012:Twenty Somali migrants were killed early this morning and another 55 injured as they were being smuggled from Ajdabiya into...

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Dec 29 tomlittle

Girl dies in Al-Jmail after falling down well

Tripoli, 29 December:A young girl in Al-Jmail died after being trapped down a 12-metre deep well for more than seven hours.Residents managed to save t...

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Dec 20 Michel Cousins

Gun firing by Sebha airport forces airliner to abort landing

By Ashraf Abdul Wahab. Tripoli, 20 December:Passengers on an Afriqiyah Airways flight from Benghazi that was coming in to land in Sebha were terrifie...

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Dec 15 tomlittle

Bank attacked in downtown Tripoli

By Naeema Misrati.Tripoli, 15 December:A large number of men armed with pistols stormed the Commercial Bank in the Dahra area of the capital yesterday...

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Unexploded Scud destroyed near Sirte
Dec 13 tomlittle

Unexploded Scud destroyed near Sirte

Tripoli, 13 December:Ordnance experts destroyed a Scud missile warhead near Sirte today after it had lain inactive for nearly 17 months.The missile, t...

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