{"id":280410,"date":"2019-07-05T06:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T06:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280410"},"modified":"2019-07-05T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T07:12:45","slug":"tripoli-flights-halted-after-strike-by-libya-strongman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tripoli-flights-halted-after-strike-by-libya-strongman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripoli flights halted after strike by Libya strongman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Libyan capital\u2019s only functioning airport suspended flights on Wednesday after an air raid claimed by strongman Khalifa Haftar\u2019s forces, airport authorities said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The attack did not cause casualties or damage, a security source at Mitiga airport said.<\/p>\n<p>But Ahmad al-Mesmari, a spokesman for Haftar\u2019s self-styled Libyan National Army, said that a \u201ccommand centre for drones at Mitiga\u201d was destroyed in the raid.<\/p>\n<p>Haftar launched an offensive in early April to take the capital Tripoli, seat of the rival Government of National Accord. The GNA is recognised by the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three months his self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) has repeatedly targeted Mitiga airport. It says it is targeting \u201cTurkish drones\u201d which it claims take off from Mitiga to carry out strikes on LNA forces south of Tripoli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libyan capital\u2019s only functioning airport suspended flights on Wednesday after an air raid claimed by strongman Khalifa Haftar\u2019s forces, airport authorities said in a statement. The attack did not cause casualties or damage, a security source at Mitiga airport said. But Ahmad al-Mesmari, a spokesman for Haftar\u2019s self-styled Libyan National Army, said that a \u201ccommand centre for drones at Mitiga\u201d was destroyed in the raid. Haftar launched an offensive in early April to take the capital Tripoli, seat of the rival Government of National Accord. The GNA is recognised by the international community. Over the past three months his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}