Tripoli News

Tripoli - The northern Lebanese city of Tripoli saw some of its heaviest fighting between pro and anti-Assad gunmen last night. In the aftermath of the fighting, at least 10 people were killed.

Tripoli - During the last two weeks armed militia members have surrounded both the Libyan Foreign Ministry and also the Justice Ministry. After the recent passage of a law banning senior former Gadaffi officials from office, it was expected the gunmen would leave.

Tripoli - As violence sparked by the Innocence of Muslims movie continued in many cities around the Middle East, a visit by Pope Benedict seemed to ignite more outrage, resulting in a Tripoli Lebanon Kentucky Fried Chicken being set ablaze by protesters.

At least nine people were killed and 42 wounded in the Lebanese port of Tripoli, making Saturday's death toll the highest, and bloodiest in a single day, raising fears that Syria's unrest will spill over the border into its smaller neighbor.

Tripoli - A militia group from Misrata attacked a refugee camp, home to black Libyan refugees from the town of Tawergha. They massacred at least five people in what has been termed a racist assault.

Tripoli - A gun battle broke out early Monday morning at the entrance to Tripoli's main hospital, resulting in seven deaths. Rebel fighters from Zintan who had earlier shot a man demanded entry to the hospital to finish him off.

Tripoli - William Hague was in Tripoli on Monday for the reopening of the British Embassy. He met with interim leader Mustafa Adbel Jalil, pledging another £42 million towards Libya.

Tripoli - Inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are investigating claims by the interim government in Libya of missing chemical weapons from a munitions storage site that was once under the control of strongman Muammar Qaddafi.

Aberdeen - A Libyan man who lives and works in Scotland has claimed that a NATO air-strike on Wednesday has claimed the lives of five members of his family.

The leader of the newly established Tripoli Military Council is Abdelhakim Belhadj, the former head of the terrorist Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which was banned internationally as a terrorist organization after the 9/11 attacks.