The Rixos fighting comes hours after the violent clashes in western Tripoli areas. The highway and other roads leading to Rixos hotel compound were closed, while situations are still very tense. It said in a statement it will not stand idly by while fighting rages in the capital. “We demand both sides to withdraw to their locations, free identity-based abductees and open the roads,” the statement reads. The Rixos compound is the HQ of the first elected parliament in Libya, the General National Congress.

Source: Libya Observer March 15, 2017 08:15 UTC