• The UN-backed Libyan government announced taking over the entire capital Tripoli and expelling the rival eastern-based army.
• The eastern-based army has been leading a military campaign since April 2019, in an attempt to take over Tripoli and topple the UN-backed government.
• The violence killed and injured hundreds of civilians and displaced more than 150,000 others.

About Tripoli

• Tripoli is the capital city and the largest city of Libya.
• It is located in the northwest of Libya on the edge of the desert, on a point of rocky land projecting into the Mediterranean Sea and forming a bay.