{"id":97514,"date":"2014-07-14T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=97514"},"modified":"2014-07-14T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:57:07","slug":"rival-libyan-militias-battle-for-tripoli-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=97514","title":{"rendered":"Rival Libyan militias battle for Tripoli airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/libya-tripoli-international-airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-97512\" alt=\"libya-tripoli-international-airport\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/libya-tripoli-international-airport.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/libya-tripoli-international-airport.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/libya-tripoli-international-airport-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/libya-tripoli-international-airport-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rival Libyan militias battled for Tripoli International Airport on Sunday, leaving nine people dead and 25 others wounded, the government said.<\/p>\n<p>Shelling was threatening civilians as violence stretched along the airport road, which is dotted with residential neighborhoods. All flights in and out of the airport have been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>While the government issued a statement calling for calm, Libya&#8217;s government is weak and militias outnumber and outgun its security forces. Many of the armed groups are on the state&#8217;s payroll.<\/p>\n<p>These circumstances make it very difficult for the government to gain control over this latest increasingly volatile and violent situation.<\/p>\n<p>Late Sunday morning, the sounds of fighting could also be heard in the vicinity of a Zintan base in a western suburb of Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rival Libyan militias battled for Tripoli International Airport on Sunday, leaving nine people dead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":97512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[12373],"class_list":["post-97514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-libya-tripoli-airport","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}