Tripoli

The front lines are moving in one direction only: slowly but steadily towards Tripoli, where the colonel is believed to be.

Two weeks ago, journalists were landing in Tripoli, body armor packed, ready to witness the triumphant arrival of the rebels.

"Leader" Muammar Gadaffi is hunkered down in Tripoli, defended by army units from his tribe and mercenaries from black Africa.

A few days later, air transport was crucial again to Colonel Qaddafi's plan to recapture coastal towns close to Tripoli from rebel hands.

Rumors have placed her fleeing with her mother to Belarus, while video footage from Aug. 22 depicted protesters storming her Tripoli house.

Libyan air raids in the West began, the British Ambassador in Libya, had been called home, now is not the British diplomats in Tripoli.

Meanwhile, the U. S. announced that Libya has "no-fly zone" was extended to Lee near the capital Tripoli, covering the Mediterranean coast.

Before opposition forces gained control of Tripoli, evacuation by boat was the only safe route out of the city.

One group started up a tank, drove it out of the gate, crushing the median of the main highway and driving off toward Tripoli.

As you know, our Embassy in Tripoli, when our staff left, we suspended operations.

This was the standard form of punishment for traitors in Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Salee during the Middle Ages.

U. S. officials are "cautiously optimistic" as a result of what they've seen in the liberated parts of Tripoli so far, Nuland said.

Driving into Tripoli is to drive into a ghost city. It looks like a set for a Hollywood apocalypse film.

The Libyan rebels' push into Tripoli Sunday night may end up being a bit of an anti-climax for the oil markets.

Tripoli, which had seemed to be a safe, stable place to invest, now bore the risk of anarchy.

And then as the Libyan revolution spread, he made bombs and smuggled weapons into Tripoli to help overthrow the Qaddafi government.

Even then, it is unclear how much authority they will wield over the disparate group of commanders who now control Tripoli's streets.

SO FAR, barely a week after the opposition captured the bulk of Tripoli, things have gone astonishingly well.

Britain's Tony Blair dropped in on him in Tripoli in 2004, and was back again to sign an oil deal earlier this year.

Over the next few days the aim is to extend the zone eastwards until it covers the whole of the coast to the capital, Tripoli.

Col. Gadhafi has several residences and other facilities outside Tripoli to which he could relocate, said a senior U. S. defense official.

Two years on, a CNN journalist who visited him in Tripoli said al-Megrahi appeared to be "near death. "

The British were accused of trying to curry favor with Tripoli for oil and arms deals.

If the New York Times description of the military endgame around Tripoli is accurate, NATO air power alone did not win the war.

Speaking from Tripoli, Lebanon, he said the strong Israeli response has radicalized Arab public opinion in the region.

He said the army troops had been "cut off the armed opposition in Tripoli last weekend scored the posterior. "

riving into Tripoli is to drive into a ghost city. It looks like a set for a Hollywood apocalypse film.

In one of his last speeches, made weeks after Tripoli fell and he was a fugitive, he exhorted Libyans to defeat the uprising.

I also decided that if it did happen, the interview should take place in London rather than Tripoli.

The U. S. State Department said a chartered ferry with room for about 600 passengers was due to leave Tripoli shortly for Malta.

Did the sudden collapse of most of the Libyan regime's defenses in and around Tripoli cause Assad to feel a heightened sense of anxiety?

On Sunday night we were taken to a Tripoli hospital. There, lying on a bed, was the unconscious form of a little girl.

He said the rebels' National Transitional Council will soon move to Tripoli from the eastern city of Benghazi.

He said the country had a "long and winding road towards full democracy" , but the US and other countries would stand behind Tripoli.

The last time we'd spoken, in September, he'd surprised me with an epic story of sneaking off by boat with his brother to fight in Tripoli.

Nato has admitted it was responsible for an air strike that killed civilians in Tripoli over the weekend.

In the days since then, with Colonel Qaddafi having gained ground in Tripoli, the defection no longer seems to be on the table.

I met a number of the senior Senoussi clan in Tripoli and have no doubt they would be ready to assume leadership of anti-Gadaffi forces.

The Tripoli government rejected the proposal calling it a trick that did not offer peace.

I can't hand-on-heart tell you it's in Tripoli, but this was the main front out of Misurata.

Earlier, a Canadian newspaper reported it had discovered Libyan government documents regarding the meeting in a pile of trash in Tripoli.

While Nato is hammering away at targets in Tripoli it has still not found a way to pay the rebels' bills.

That ship wasn't able to leave on Wednesday because of bad weather. It was expected to head out from Tripoli today.

It has been battling up to 200 Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Mediterranean city of Tripoli.

Today, I can announce that our ambassador is on his way back to Tripoli.

Lebanese authorities prevented the boat from leaving Tripoli, Lebanon , citing problems with the boat's registration papers.

The main road and supply route from Tripoli to the Tunisian border, which runs through Zawiya, is said to have been partially closed.

Many who participated in antiregime demonstration Sunday in Tripoli said they were scared to go back out on the streets.

He disappeared into hiding, along with his family, and began to help organize the underground resistance in the Tripoli area.

Civilians in Tripoli have to queue for a week to get petrol.

Gun battles have taken place in the Libyan capital Tripoli for the first time since anti-Gaddafi forces took control of the city in August.

Tripoli residents said police stations and other government buildings, including the General People's Congress, had been set on fire.

Qaddafi is still calling on his supporters to fight and vowing to restore his own version of law and order in Tripoli.

American boots definitely do not belong on the shores of Tripoli, but it has happened before and may happen again.

Libyan leader Mouammar Gaddafi made his first public appearance in a week near Tripoli late Tuesday, vowing to fight on.

Mr Gasir and others said telephone networks in Tripoli appeared to have been cut off since midday Monday.

'There will be changes of course, whether we like it or not, ' said Shukri Ghanem, in an interview in his office in Tripoli.

His statement was in stark contrast to statements from Tripoli that Gadhafi has no intention of giving up power.

The bill may be imperfect, says Steve Tripoli of Ceres, a green business group, but having no bill at all would be unthinkable.

Late Monday, with rebel fighters in substantial control of Tripoli, he was nowhere to be found, and his regime seemed to be collapsing.

Megrahi was released on the basis that he had three months to live, and then received a hero's welcome as he returned to Tripoli.

Perhaps the oddest thing about Muhammad was his phone call to Al Jazeera on Sunday, as rebels began to lay siege to Tripoli.

Tripoli, Libya's capital, is sprouting fancy new hotels, as well as a new airport, to welcome an influx of would-be investors and tourists.

Delegates from several African countries gathered in Tripoli to hear Libyan officials slam NATO's intervention.

Maybe so. But his security service is still cracking down on Tripoli's restive suburbs.

The reporters had found her abandoned in Gaddafi's seaside compound in Tripoli and said her face was covered with burns.

Faced with a vengeful Tripoli , the Swiss felt they had few allies to call upon .

The front line, the civilian neighbourhood along Misurata's Tripoli Street, has become the devastated playground of war.

The impoverished residents of Souk al-Juma, one of Tripoli's rubbish-strewn suburbs, quietly cheered the news of the arrest warrant.

They were ordinary workers, laborers in Tripoli. [Gaddafi] captured them and put them into the war. Mauritanians and others.

Late into the night in Tripoli, we often hear Nato air strikes - the distinct boom of the explosions is enough to wake everyone up.

A government official in Tripoli said there was no sign Ghanem had defected.

But his security service is still cracking down on Tripoli's restive suburbs.

The U. S. also temporarily abandoned its embassy in Tripoli as a final flight carrying American citizens departed from the capital.

21 August: As rebel forces approached Tripoli, he said: "We will fight to the last drop of blood. We will never give up. "

Deafening celebrations erupted in Tripoli, but none of the reports could be independently verified.

Meanwhile, rebel forces continued to advance on the capital, Tripoli.

Still, in Tripoli, the regime appeared to maintain its grip, with the help of special forces that patrolled the streets.

Statoil ASA, the Norwegian oil company, said it had shut its office in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Independent news media are beginning to emerge in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, two weeks after the fall of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

He said negotiations between the government and tribal leaders would start Wednesday in Tripoli.

The Tripoli Internet monitoring center was a major part of a broad surveillance apparatus built by Col.

After fierce fighting with Colonel Gaddafi's forces, they appeared to have captured the town of Bir al-Ghanam, about 80km from Tripoli.

A British diplomat says sourly: "The delegation to Tripoli led by Jacob Zuma looked like a state visit from Tyrants Inc. "

Meanwhile, there have been several sightings of the "opposition flag" in Tripoli, albeit for a fleeting moment.

Col Gaddafi largely controls the capital, Tripoli, his birthplace Sirte and a number of other smaller towns to the south and west.

The journalists were taken to a police station for two hours before they returned to Tripoli to get another bus back to the border.

Moreover the coastal aquifer historically used in Tripoli was becoming contaminated and its salinity was increasing.

This is one reason America has debt issues, wanting to be able to fight wars from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.

Libyan state media said the strikes caused casualties in Tripoli.

Libyan state media said the strikes caused casualties in Tripoli.

The ordnance is aimed at radars and anti-aircraft sites around the capital of Tripoli and other facilities along the Mediterranean coast.

Earlier this week, NATO warplanes bombed the Libyan capital, Tripoli, with Libyan television reporting the deaths of at least 19 people.

While military operations continued in central Libya, life began to return to normal in the capital, Tripoli.

He said that only Ukrainians can now be evacuated by plane from Tripoli, Tripoli from other cities have not.

If the rebels can hold on to Zawiya and take Zlitan (which will not be easy), the impact on life in Tripoli will be profound.

Growing up in Tripoli, Gaddafi was everywhere and everything.

On the grounds of his Tripoli compound, he entertained visitors in a Bedouin tent and kept herds of camels and goats.

He may be in Venezuela or working as a suspiciously taciturn short-order chef in a falafel bar in Tripoli.

As the rebels' dream of conquering Tripoli unaided fades, their other aim, to hold fast in the east, may begin to look optimistic too.

Foreign journalists in Tripoli are not allowed to travel and report freely and are almost always shadowed by government minders.

The message came hours after Nato carried out one of its heaviest daytime raids on Tripoli so far.

Driving along devastated Tripoli Street, the former line, it is not hard to understand why.

Under the terms of his release, al-Megrahi must live at his Tripoli home and provide monthly reports of his medical condition.

Foreign reporters in Tripoli are not allowed to travel and report freely and are almost always shadowed by government minders.

'I am with you here, I am in Tripoli, ' he said.

Since rebels advanced into Tripoli last week, calls have been made by U. S. politicians for al-Megrahi to be extradited.

Oil production in Libya had already restarted after the dictator was driven out of Tripoli in September.

Perhaps the two explosions that echoed around Tripoli this afternoon were backing up the message from Doha that Colonel Gaddafi must go.

Tonight, the momentum against the Gadhafi regime has reached a tipping point. Tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant.

A headhunter recruited Mr. Roberts to work as a Corrosion Engineer for an oil company in Tripoli, Libya, where he relocated in February.

" On Sunday, as the rebels swept into the capital, he insisted: " I am in Tripoli . . . I am with you until the end.

Normally, bankers should be on the lookout for accounts in the name of M. Gaddafi, last known address Tripoli.

Mr. Liohn said they had been working together on the rebel side of thefront lines on Tripoli Street, one of the city's main battle grounds.

GaoZhiHang with all came to the door and saw big old liu tripoli and is among them, big Lao liu to GaoZhiHang sent his hand do boots.

In the courtyard of a mosque in Tripoli, government officials called a press conference to show journalists horrific footage of the dead.

Mrs. Gordon punched Mr. Tripoli's risk-factor numbers and other data into a software program she developed called Intimal Health.

A UNICEF emergency team is now in Tripoli, working with local authorities to review options and identify alternative water sources.

Knights in training hailing from the County of Tripoli. Equipped with light armour, shield and a sword. Reliable heavy infantry.

At least 51 people have died after drinking tainted homemade alcohol in Tripoli, Libyan health officials say.

For the moment the rebels have too few men to attack Tripoli directly from the Nafusa mountains.

"We were brought to the airport in Sabha and told we were going to participate in peaceful protest in Tripoli to support Gaddafi, " he says.

Benghazi Callers confirm that AJA and AJE and BBC CNN are reporting from BENGHAZI near the HOTEL and claiming its TRIPOLI.

Not only in Bengazi - also in Tripoli. People cannot withdraw their savings at the bank.

On battlegrounds across the vast, empty land, his forces have taken back Zawiya and Zuwara west of the capital, Tripoli.

Nato says it's destroyed guard towers around a compound used by the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi in two air raids on the centre of Tripoli.

No one answered the phone at the sovereign-wealth fund's headquarters in Tripoli, and its website and email aren't working.

Libyan military aircraft have again bombed a refinery and a rebel checkpoint near the oil port of Ras Lanuf, east of Tripoli.

The residents of Libya's east remain angry, particularly as accounts of ongoing massacres in Tripoli spill across the spotty phone lines.

Keen amateur and professional astronomers had a perfect opportunity to view the phenomenon with clear skies in Johannesburg and Tripoli.

Loyalist snipers and mortar crews continue to harass rebels in Tripoli, fighting with extraordinary devotion to a regime which seems doomed.

With Misrata to the east in the rebels' hands, Colonel Qaddafi and his loyalists had no way to flee Tripoli but into the sea.

Seeing Tripoli last bloody time coming, more than one million foreigners are still in the city is left to go into the biggest problem.

In a vast country four times the size of the Iraq, air capability is critical to Tripoli's projection of central power.

Meanwhile, Nato says it's carried out an air strike against Libyan munitions bunkers near Tripoli.

Should that happen, this person said, people in Tripoli could find the courage to rise up once more against Col. Gadhafi.

Outside the Mitiga Hospital in eastern Tripoli, a group of men in white smocks and masks are loading the remains of 17 men onto a truck.

Separate fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli killed at least one person and wounded 10 others.

The Libyan, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, is said to be near death from cancer at his home in Tripoli.

Tripoli resident, who prefers to give just his first name, Ali, said by telephone Tuesday that much of the capital was functioning normally.

In the capital Tripoli, Gadhafi loyalists fired anti-aircraft guns into the air sporadically, amid reports of NATO airstrikes.

Many believed he was hiding out in Sirte after rebel forces marched into Tripoli in August.

Just ask those who have summoned up the courage to risk death for a cause on the streets of Tripoli.

IOM says people, trapped in Tripoli because of fighting on the Western fronts, are desperate to leave the city.

"By this act, Al Qaeda wanted to mark out its presence and its influence in this region, " Mussa Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli.

About 50 government tanks were reported to have attacked Zawiya near the capital Tripoli from where Wyre Davies reports.

The Libyan leader, speaking from the ramparts of a historic Tripoli fort, told supporters to prepare to defend the nation.

As he clung to power in Tripoli, he unleashed a campaign of terror against opponents in the city.

Lee said the opposition, who then also won the Tripoli Qasr ben Gheshir area.

Most food supplies used to arrive by sea at the ports of Tripoli and Misrata, Libya's commercial hub farther east.

Since then the armed opposition in Tripoli on the way to enter, and then did not encounter a decent resistance.

Now we will take a tour in the 'hot spots' of the city of Tripoli so you can see that the situation is good.

9 at midnight local time, the city center of Tripoli came three huge sound explosion, later, an explosion in the suburbs, it was rumored.

Amid fierce battles the colonel's forces seemed to have regained control of Zawiya, a city near Tripoli.

The government in Tripoli said it had "liberated" Misrata from rebels and declared a cease-fire there.

Since Tripoli fell to anti-Gaddafi forces, the city has had no running water and little electricity.

It is called Bride of the Sea (Aarous al-Bahr), a local nickname for Tripoli.

The winds of change may be blowing across the Arab world, rolling from Egypt to Tripoli's Green Square.

The reports reinforced Tripoli's propaganda message, blaming alcoholics, Islamic terrorists, criminals and drug dealers for the unrest.

We understand Mr. Obama's concern for the hundreds of Americans waiting to be evacuated from Tripoli.

He feared that many prisoners may have been abandoned days ago without food or water in underground prisons hidden around Tripoli.

Shortly after Colonel Gaddafi ended his speech, a BBC correspondent in Tripoli heard the sound of guns being fired, apparently into the air.

A series of massive explosions have shaken the Libyan capital Tripoli in what appears to be a major Nato air strike.

After Tripoli most other fronts appeared to crumble.

The flowers were given to him by a supporter while he drove in an electric golf cart, after speaking in Tripoli.

He adds he has not been out of the capital, but in Tripoli, it's fine.

In the east and in Tripoli, some of the largest, best-equipped brigades are associated with Islamist groups now forming political parties.

In Tripoli and the western oil port Zhawei Ya sporadic armed opposition demonstrations against government troops but so far no major impact.

Council forces continue to search for Mr. Gadhafi and his senior officials who fled Tripoli as the city fell.

In the last few hours, several rounds of anti-aircraft gunfire have been heard above Tripoli.

His rapturous reception in Tripoli has been criticised by the British and U. S. governments.

They accuse Nato of using eight rockets to carry out the attack, which pulverised a country estate west of the capital Tripoli.

Across town three editors, working in a converted shop, are preparing the latest edition of Tripoli's first independent newspaper.

current twitter reports that helos are striking in Tripoli tonight, to be confirmed.

Pro-regime snipers cut off the road to Tripoli's airport, rebels said, and fired at motorists near its port.

Earlier this month two militias fought each other in a territorial dispute near the town of Zawiya, west of Tripoli.

In any event, as the rebels advance farther towards Tripoli, the road link to the Algerian border may be cut.

In tandem with the Special Envoy's activities, the Humanitarian Coordinator also carried out a mission to Tripoli.

Mr Jibril belongs to the Warfalla, Libya's largest tribe, which controls much of the land east of Tripoli.

But now the USA Government secretly provided him with training his forces, give him weapons and money to take over control of Tripoli.

By May, rebels had repulsed that campaign, beginning the Gadhafi forces' slow but steady military retreat toward the capital, Tripoli.

Earlier, Libya has taken control of the armed opposition in the country in most parts of the capital Tripoli.

In Tripoli's central Martyr's Square, Fawzi Jobran, an accountant, said Mr. Gadhafi and his inner circle must be held accountable.

Heavy fighting continued Wednesday around Tripoli's airport, which the opposition says is in its hands.

and his defence ministry spokesman suggested Tripoli might respond by attacking air or maritime traffic in the Mediterranean.

Two years later -- after a hero's welcome in Tripoli -- he remains alive, and anger at his release has grown.

In Tripoli, the capital, residents fired weapons into the air and blasted their car horns, crowding the streets.

The arrest warrants won't trouble Colonel Gaddafi as long as he remains in power in Tripoli.

In a major front east of Tripoli, rebels retreated under heavy fire on the coastal road near the strategic oil-port town of Ras Lanuf.

In a vast country four times the size of Iraq, air capability is critical to Tripoli's projection of central power.

A NATO air strike in Tripoli killed one of Muammar Qaddafi's sons, Saif al-Arab, and three of the Libyan leader's grandchildren.

For one thing, the rebels still hope they will have captured Tripoli within a few months, if not sooner.

"We support any dialogue, any peace initiative as long as they don't decide Libya's future from without, " he told journalists in Tripoli.

The prime minister of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mahmoud Jibril, confirmed Gadhafi's death at a news conference in Tripoli.

The International Red Cross says the fighting in Tripoli has led to an urgent need for medical supplies and staff.

Clashes were reported in Tripoli, the capital, for a second day on Monday, with dozens of people reportedly killed.

A report from Tripoli's suburb of Tajoura dismissed marchers there as a nuisance akin to 'stray dogs. '

Baroin's remarks come as the United States pushes for stronger international action against Tripoli.

Col. Gadhafi had been expected to address his supporters at his fortified compound in Bab Azizya in Tripoli.

Two Tripoli hospitals reported at least 62 bodies were brought to their morgues since Sunday.

During the Fighting a Group of Tripoli Green resistance entered in midst of Rebels. they placed explosives in Rebel camps many rebels died.

Saif also appeared at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, where international journalists were woken up and told to go downstairs.

Gadhafi and whether the country could be held together given the deepening rift between Tripoli in the west, and the rebel-held east.

In other fighting, a diesel storage tank exploded at the Sidr oil facility, 360 miles east of Tripoli, sending thick smoke into the air.

Libyan rebels strengthened their grip on Misrata, the city closest to the capital, Tripoli, which is still in rebel hands.

The story is very different in the capital Tripoli, which is said to be the last stronghold of the four-decade rule of Muammar Al Gaddafi.

A shopkeeper (L) works inside his shop, while a Libyan family shopping, is reflected in a mirror at an old Market in Tripoli April 15, 2006.

Saif Gadhafi was born in Tripoli in 1972 -- the Libyan dictator's eldest son by his second wife.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said in Washington that President Bush hopes to name a new ambassador to Tripoli soon.

The 69-year-old colonel's whereabouts had been unclear since rebel forces seized control of Tripoli, the capital, nearly two months ago.

Libyan rebels have claimed to be in control of most of Tripoli, including the airport.

The fledgling government's behaviour in Tripoli and elsewhere suggests that it will go out of its way to avoid undue triumphalism.

Latent opposition in Tripoli, and anti-Gaddafi people are actively planning for the summer and wait for the final moment of the riots.

Driving into Tripoli is to drive into a ghost city.

Caller from Inside Tripoli said Souq al Juma is not controlled by Rebels. Rebels pass sometimes highway. its in Green resistance.

TRIPOLI - Anti-aircraft gunfire could still be heard in Tripoli by early Sunday as warplanes flew over the city.

A rebel fighter holds the identification card of a pro-Gadhafi soldier after they were captured in Tripoli, LIbya, Tuesday, Aug.

"The only imagery they wanted loaded on was Misurata to Tripoli, on that coastal road, " Barlow said.

They do not represent only the east. Like-minded people in Tripoli are keen to join hands with them (see article).

The other Tripoli is one of anxiety, of fear, of heavy weapons and explosions.

At the central bank in Tripoli, security guards and receptionists said three days running last week that the governor was away.

Still, Libyans erupted in joy. Horns blared and celebratory gunfire burst into the air in Tripoli.

But the various front lines are all still some way from Tripoli, where the regime still has a tight grip on the population.

Getting out was terrifying and fighting broke out in Tripoli as we drove through.

Rebel leaders in Libya say they believe Colonel Gaddafi may still be hiding somewhere near the capital Tripoli.

South Africa was also loth to unfreeze funds controlled by the colonel to bolster the new rulers in Tripoli.

Soon, she was on her way to Tripoli.

The United States mounted a bombing raid against Tripoli, the Libyan capital, in reprisal.

The International Organisation for Migration says it has sent a ship to Tripoli to evacuate migrants.

He helped defuse explosives the deposed leader's loyalists planned to plant in civilian areas of the capital of Tripoli after his fall.

Confront them, confront them and purge the great city of Tripoli from these rats - the agents of colonialism.

But the Libyan government spokesman Ibrahim responded that all the current calm in Tripoli, government forces still hold control.

Some members of the former government in Tripoli have fled south to Niger, including one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons.

In Tripoli, Libyans leaders also vowed to track down the attackers and stressed their unity with Washington.

On the one hand, foreigners are crowding into the capital, Tripoli, with economic reform and greater openness in the air.

But in this case, she ran Mr. Tripoli's age, cholesterol numbers and blood pressure through the updated Framingham Heart risk score.

Earlier, the rebels took control of a key military base on the western approach to Tripoli.

Libya's deputy ambassador said that he wanted it to declare a no-fly zone over the capital Tripoli to prevent air attacks on demonstrators.

His units control Tripoli's Mitiga airport; he has refused to let American aircraft use it.

The opposition say they think Colonel Gaddafi himself is still in the Tripoli area.

The Transitional National Council has been working quickly to restore water and electricity and food supplies to Tripoli.

What if, chastened by news footage of dead women and children in a Tripoli market, the coalition starts to fall apart?

The area, known as the Pelagian basin, is 100km north of Tripoli in the Mediterranean.

His own consulting firm plans to reopen the Tripoli office which it established just before the uprising.

A young Libyan girl attends with her father the weekly Friday noon prayer at the Martyrs' Square in Tripoli on September 2, 2011.

On Thursday, an estimated 23 people died as violence broke out in the city of Zawiya, just 50 kilometers west of Tripoli.

Through the late afternoon after Friday prayers, residents of Tripoli joined the procession from Tajura.

Libya's ports -- including Zawia, Tripoli, Benghazi and Misurata -- have been closed, traders in the country said.

is currently working for the Canadian Embassy in Tripoli renovated furnished and equipped with safety devices.

Early Sunday, the sound of antiaircraft fire and screaming fighter jets echoed across Tripoli, punctuated by heavy explosions.