Troops of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army have reportedly secured parts of Tripoli, run by a U.N.-backed government in danger of collapse.
A powerful Libyan general in charge of much of the country has set out to claim the capital, potentially overthrowing a United Nations-backed government and allied militias.
By Friday, the Libyan National Army had entered the capital's outskirts, taking the nearby town of Al-Aziziyah. Spokesperson Ahmed al-Mismari announced that Tripoli's international airport was"fully under the control" of the faction as part of an operation now officially named"Flood of Dignity." Awaiting Haftar in Tripoli was his rival Fayez al-Sarraj, the U.N.-backed chairman of the Presidential Council and prime minister of the Government of National Accord. Both men previously worked for Qaddafi's government—Sarraj as a housing minister and Haftar as a leading military officer who ultimately turned on the longtime leader with support from the U.S., where he later fled and gained citizenship.
A local militiaman, belonging to a group opposed to Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar stands next to vehicles the group said they seized from Haftar's forces in the coastal town of Zawiya, west of Tripoli on April 5, hours after Haftar's forces were reportedly pushed back from a key checkpoint less than 18 miles from Tripoli. Arabic graffiti on the weapon reads"God is Greater" and"Benghazi.
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