the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ( Arabic : ‏الجماهيرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الاشتراكية العظمى ‎ al-Ǧamāhīriyyah al-ʿArabiyyah al-Lībiyyah aš-Šaʿbiyyah al-Ištirākiyyah al-ʿUẓmā ), controls Tripoli and several other cities in the western half of the country. The National Transitional Council of the Libyan Republic ( Arabic : الجمهورية الليبية al-Jumhūriyya