| Submit your comments on this article |
| Africa North |
| Libya’s deepening split finds battleground at oil terminals |
| 2017-03-13 |
| [Gulf News] Hundreds if not thousands of gunnies are converging on Libya’s main oil shipping terminals, which the rival powers in the country’s east and west are fighting to control in a battle being watched by global oil markets. The struggle for the Ras Lanuf refinery and nearby Sidr depot threatens to spiral into an all-out conflict between east and west. Already, it has seen the bloodiest fighting yet between the two camps: Around 40 troops from the east were killed over four days as militias backed by western factions stormed the area last Friday, losing a handful of casualties. Now forces from the east loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar |
| Posted by:Fred |