Reached by phone, a female resident in Tripoli told The Associated Press that families had locked themselves in their homes. The U.N.-brokered unity government's spokesman Ashraf al-Tulty said that a ceasefire agreement has been reached among warring militias but revealed no further details. Each of the warring parties has its political and ideological agendas," said Sami al-Atrash, a Tripoli resident and a legal expert. One of Tripoli's largest and most powerful militias, Tripoli Revolutionaries, led by Haytham al-Tajouri, had previously been ambivalent about the unity government, but it has now joined forces with the Rada militia. On Thursday night, the Rada and Tripoli Revolutionaries militias took control of five-star hotel Al Mahary Radisson Blu Hotel in central Tripoli, where Belhaj had turned some of its rooms into offices.

Source: Libya Today December 02, 2016 13:37 UTC