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Flights suspended in Libya’s capital due to rocket fire
Flights were suspended until further notice at the only functioning airport in Libya’s capital Tripoli today due to rockets falling nearby, an airport official said. The closure of Mitiga Airport comes a day after Turkey’s parliament voted to allow a
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Turkey to send troops to Libya at Tripoli’s request: Erdogan
Turkey will send troops to Libya at the request of Tripoli as soon as next month, President Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday, putting the North African country’s conflict at the center of wider regional frictions. Libya’s internationally recognized Government of National
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3 civilians killed in shelling in Libya’s Tripoli
TRIPOLI: Three civilians were killed on Thursday by indiscriminate shelling that hit south of the Libyan capital Tripoli, an official said. “Three civilians, two men and a woman, were killed later Thursday by indiscriminate shelling in Twesha area (some 40
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Deadly air strike kills at least 40 in Tripoli
TRIPOLI: An air strike late yesterday hit a detention centre for mainly African migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80, a health official said. It is the highest publicly
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