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East Libyan warplanes hit Tripoli government positions |
2019-04-13 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eastern Libyan forces bogged down in street battles in a push to seize the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... deployed warplanes on Friday to hit several government positions, as more civilians fled fighting. More than 1,000 people gathered in central Tripoli to demand that Khalifa Haftar ![]() stop the advance of his Libyan National Army (LNA) on the coastal city of about 1.2 million people. Haftar launched the campaign a week ago, in the latest conflict in a cycle of anarchy since the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... But forces loyal to Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj's internationally recognized government have so far kept them at bay, with fierce fighting round a disused former airport about 11 km from the center. |
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