Monday, May 6, 2019

Tripoli...

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Eight years after the fall of its former ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains plagued by instability, thanks to Hillary Clinton's desire to start wars everywhere.
Last month the self-styled Libyan National Army led by strongman General Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive on the capital, Tripoli.
BBC Arabic's Feras Killani has spent time embedded with fighters allied to the country's internationally recognised Government of National Accord, as they battle to repel the assault.

Fighting raged in the battle for the Libyan capital Tripoli, with neither faction able to secure gains as an offensive by eastern commander Khalifa Haftar entered its fifth week, killing almost 400 people and displacing 50,000.

Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA), which is allied to a parallel administration based in Benghazi, has in the past week brought up more troops and heavy guns to the frontline.  

But it has been unable to breach the defenses in the city's southern suburbs of forces loyal to the internationally recognized government in Tripoli.

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