Topic - Tripoli

) is the capital city and the largest city of Libya. As of 2011, the Tripoli metropolitan area (district area) had a population of 2.2 million people. The city is located in the northwestern part of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean and forming a bay. - Source: Wikipedia

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A view of a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. Libyan officials say clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in the country’s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation. (AP Photo, File)

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Two men hug as people look for survivors in the flooded city of Derna, Libya, Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. For many Libyans, the disastrous flooding that killed more than 11,000 people have fostered a sense of unity. The collective grief has morphed into a rallying cry of national unity in a country blighted by 12 years of conflict and division. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

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People burn photos showing Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush in Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. Cohen and Mangoush met in the Italian capital, Rome, last week, according to the Israeli foreign ministry. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

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Libyan security forces stand guard in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2023. Clashes between rival militias in Libya's capital killed a few dozen people and left residents trapped in their homes Tuesday, unable to escape the violence, medical authorities said. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

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FILE - The artist sketch depicts Assistant U.S. Attorney Erik Kenerson, front left, watching as Whitney Minter, a public defender from the eastern division of Virginia, stands to represent Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, in federal court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022, as Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather listens. Libyan officials say a powerful militia was involved in the clandestine detention and questioning of a suspect in the 1988 downing of a New York-bound PanAm flight over Lockerbie, Scotland. The alleged bombmaker involved in the attack, Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, was eventually extradited to the United States earlier this month, under orders from one of two rival governments running Libya. (Dana Verkouteren via AP, File)

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In this photo released by the Lebanese Army official Twitter page, shows the boat that sank carrying about 80 Lebanese, Syrians, and Palestinians trying to migrate by sea to Italy, following a confrontation with the Lebanese navy, which found by Pisces VI submarine on some 459 meters (about 1,505 feet), in Tripoli, north Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The Lebanese navy and a submarine crew on Friday, Aug. 26, announced that they found the remains of at least seven of the approximately 30 drowned migrants in a sunken ship off the coast of Tripoli. (Lebanese Army Website via AP)

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FILE- Forces loyal to Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, one of Libya's two rival prime ministers, secure the streets of the capital, Tripoli, on May, 17, 2022. The United Nations mission to Libya expressed concern Saturday, June 11, 2022, over clashes in Tripoli, after a night of heavy fire between militias in the capital. The latest fighting comes as Libya is once again divided between competing governments — one of which is based in Tripoli — despite more than a year of tentative steps towards unification.(AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, and the head of the Presidential Council of Libya Mohamed al-Menfi, wear face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 as they pose for photographers before their meeting, in Athens, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, right, and Mario Draghi, the Prime Minister of Italy, speak to media, Tuesday, April, 6 2021 in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Nada Harib)

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A boy takes cover behind a burned car after clashes erupt between protesters and riot policemen during a protest against deteriorating living conditions and strict coronavirus lockdown measures, in Tripoli, north Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Violent confrontations for three straight days between protesters and security forces in northern Lebanon left a 30-year-old man dead and more than 220 people injured, the state news agency said Thursday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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A man walks near a cordoned off area which is almost empty of residents and tourists, officially closed following the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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