Newsdeck: Tripoli Fighting Intensifies as Rivals Ignore Ceasefire Pleas By Bloomberg
Mitiga International Airport, Libya’s largest, temporarily suspended flights after the airstrike, which the UN’s envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, condemned as a violation of international law. Ahmed al-Mismari, spokesman for Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army, said his forces were targeting two military aircraft and were not intending to disrupt passenger traffic.
His offensive has met with resistance from militia supporting the internationally-recognized government of Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj, which is based in Tripoli. Sarraj has vowed to push the Benghazi-headquartered field marshal out not just from the capital, but from all the cities he has swept through over the past five years. Battle-hardened militias from the neighboring city of Misrata have sent reinforcements defend Tripoli.
So far, the fighting has been far from the key oil installations but the potential for disruption was enough to rattle oil markets, with benchmark Brent futures adding as much as 0.7 percent to approach $71 per barrel in London. International condemnation has been quick and sustained. Libya’s neighbor, Tunisia, appealed for calm, as did Egypt and the United Arab Emirates — both of which share Haftar’s hatred of Islamists and have been among his supporters.U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a statement late Sunday that Washington was “deeply concerned” about Haftar’s threat to Tripoli. The U.S. also withdrew a contingent of troops that support the U.S. Africa Command.
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