{"id":30324,"date":"2024-08-10T19:28:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30324"},"modified":"2024-08-10T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:28:51","slug":"militia-infighting-kills-at-least-nine-in-libyas-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/militia-infighting-kills-at-least-nine-in-libyas-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Militia Infighting Kills At least Nine in Libya\u2019s Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in Libya\u2019s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The hours-long clashes, which involved heavy weapons, occurred Friday in Tripoli\u2019s eastern neighbourhood of Tajoura between Rahba al-Duruae militia, which is led by Bashir Khalfallah \u2014 known as al-Baqrah \u2014 and another militia al-Shahida Sabriya, the officials added.<br \/>\nThe Health Ministry\u2019s Ambulance and Emergency Services said at least 9 people were killed and 16 others were wounded in the hours-long clashes.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes stemmed from an attempted assassination of al-Baqrah on Friday, which his militia blamed on al-Shahida Sabriya, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Khaled al-Meshry, the newly-elected head of the west-based High Council of State, condemned the assassination attempt and called for an investigation to hold those responsible accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The warring parties are allied with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah\u2019s government. Its spokesman didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has been divided for years between rival administrations in the east and west, each backed by armed groups and foreign governments. Currently, it is governed by Dbehiba\u2019s government in Tripoli and by the administration of Prime Minister Ossama Hammad in the east.<\/p>\n<p>Western Libya is controlled by an array of lawless militias allied with Dbeibah\u2019s government, while forces of military commander Khalifa Haftar control the country\u2019s east and south.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s militia infighting was the latest in a series of clashes between militias competing for influence in the country\u2019s west.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Clashes between two heavily armed militia groups in Libya\u2019s capital terrorized residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African nation, officials said Saturday. The hours-long clashes, which involved heavy weapons, occurred Friday in Tripoli\u2019s eastern neighbourhood of Tajoura between Rahba al-Duruae &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30325,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30324\/revisions\/30325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}