 Tripoli Brigade reinforcements arrived and convinced the Kekka brigade to withdraw, preventing any armed clashes breaking out.Fighting broke out on 31 October between the Tripoli Brigade and a brigade from Zintan when the Zintanians attempted to enter a hospital and kill a patient they had shot earlier in the day.Tripoli Brigade guards prevented them from doing so and a firefight broke out which left two dead and seven wounded,

Members of the brigade also volunteered to join the side of the anti-Assad rebels in Syria during the Syrian civil war in 2012.