CNN reports raging fighting around the outskirts of Tripoli and concentrating around the airport.
The latest assaults were launched by militias from the city of Misrata and an Islamist militia umbrella group in the capital known as the "Libyan Revolutionaries Operations Room."
With the focus on the Ukraine and Gaza a new and deadly front in the Middle East has open up big time.
"Shells are falling on houses, children are terrified and most people have evacuated. ... Our area is suffering," he told the privately run al-Nabaa TV.
"Libya heading towards becoming a failed state"
, says Libya's Foreign Minister.
CNN's article here