Following mobilisation of forces around Tripoli, UNSMIL calls for peaceful dialogue and de-escalation: report and analysis
Aug 31 Sami Zaptia

Following mobilisation of forces around Tripoli, UNSMIL calls for peaceful dialogue and de-escalation: report and analysis

Following the mobilisation of forces and heavy weapons around Tripoli over the last three days, in a statement issued yesterday, UNSMIL called for pea...

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444th Brigade and Military Intelligence head Mahmoud Hamza’s narrative of the SDF / RADA Tripoli clash
May 15 Sami Zaptia

444th Brigade and Military Intelligence head Mahmoud Hamza’s narrative of the SDF / RADA Tripoli clash

Writing on his personal Facebook page yesterday, and not on his official 444th Combat Brigade page, Major General Mahmoud Hamza, Commander of the 444t...

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Aldabaiba holds meetings on the back of the Tripoli militia clashes – orders investigations and punishment of those at fault: Report and analysis
Sep 6 Sami Zaptia

Aldabaiba holds meetings on the back of the Tripoli militia clashes – orders investigations and punishment of those at fault: Report and analysis

By Sami Zaptia.London, 6 September 2021:Libyan Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba, held two meetings on Saturday following...

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South Tripoli militia fighting: ceasefire terms announced
Jan 22 Sami Zaptia

South Tripoli militia fighting: ceasefire terms announced

By Sami Zaptia.London, 22 January 2019:The draft terms of the ceasefire agreement ending the fighting between militias in the southern edges of Greate...

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Six dead, 38 injured as South Tripoli militia fighting resumes
Jan 17 Sami Zaptia

Six dead, 38 injured as South Tripoli militia fighting resumes

By Sami Zaptia. London, 17 January 2019:The Faiez Serraj Presidency Council and Government of National Accord's Ministry of Health (MoH) has reported...

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Sep 26 Sami Zaptia

Tripoli militia war. A lull in fighting or a permanent ceasefire: Analysis

By Sami Zaptia.  London, 26 September 2018:As a number of conflicting and simultaneous narratives emerge, more news is emerging of the different pos...

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Mitiga airport closure to continue due to militia fighting
Sep 21 Sami Zaptia

Mitiga airport closure to continue due to militia fighting

By Sami Zaptia.London, 21 September 2018:Libya's Airports Authority (LAA) announced yesterday that the closure of Mitiga airport, Tripoli's only funct...

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Oct 2 Michel Cousins

Tripoli clashes between Tajouri forces and Nawasi brigade leave three dead

By Libya Herald reporter.Tripoli, 2 October 2017:Three people, including a civilian, were killed in fighting last night in Tripoli’s Gurji district, w...

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Jul 9 Michel Cousins

Local residents reported killed in Garabulli clashes between Ghwell fighters and pro-PC forces

By Hadi Fornaji.Tunis, 9 July 2017:A number of local residents are reported to have been killed and injured as a result of indiscriminate rocket fire...

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Bishr and Tajouri warn no armed force from Zintan to enter Tripoli with refugees
May 30 Nigel Ash

Bishr and Tajouri warn no armed force from Zintan to enter Tripoli with refugees

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 30 May 2017:Pro-Presidency Council militiaman Hashem Bishr and his ally the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade (TRB),...

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