{"id":20396,"date":"2019-04-15T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=20396"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T03:35:21","slug":"libya-tripoli-government-shoots-down-haftar-forces-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=20396","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Tripoli government shoots down Haftar forces jet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TRIPOLI, Libya, April 15 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Libya\u2019s UN-backed government announced on Sunday that they shot down a fighter jet belonging to eastern Libyan-based forces waging an offensive on the capital Tripoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The war jet of commander Khalifa Haftar\u2019s forces was shot down in the ar-Rabi Valley, south of Tripoli, the Government of National Accord (GNA) said on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement said nothing of the jet\u2019s pilot, and Haftar\u2019s forces have yet to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 4 Haftar launched a campaign to capture Tripoli, where Libya\u2019s UN-backed government is based.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the 2011 ouster of late President Muammar Gaddafi, two seats of power have emerged in Libya: one in eastern Libya, and another in Tripoli, which enjoys UN support.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NNN-ANADOLU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI, Libya, April 15 (NNN-ANADOLU) &#8211; Libya\u2019s UN-backed government announced on Sunday that they shot down a fighter jet belonging to eastern Libyan-based forces waging an offensive on the capital Tripoli. The war jet of commander Khalifa Haftar\u2019s forces was shot down in the ar-Rabi Valley, south of Tripoli, the Government of National Accord (GNA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}