{"id":39166,"date":"2019-08-25T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39166"},"modified":"2019-08-25T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:46:47","slug":"east-based-libyan-army-denies-launching-deadly-airstrike-in-south-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=39166","title":{"rendered":"East-based Libyan army denies launching deadly airstrike in south Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TRIPOLI, Aug 25 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Libya&#8217;s east-based army on Saturday denied responsibility for an airstrike in southern part of the capital Tripoli that killed three civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our armed air force denies targeting any civilian car in Sawani area of southern Tripoli that killed a number of civilians,&#8221; Ahmad al-Mismari, the army&#8217;s spokesman, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said footage of the site showed that the car was hit from &#8220;the left rear side,&#8221; and it &#8220;could not be caused by an airstrike.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A military source said three people were killed earlier Saturday in an airstrike in southern Tripoli, and the United Nations (UN)-backed government&#8217;s forces accused the rival east-based army of the airstrike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN-backed government has been engaged in fierce fighting with the east-based army since early April in and around the capital Tripoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The east-based army, led by General Khalifa Haftar, is allied with the east-based government, as the north African nation is politically divided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Libya has been struggling to make a democratic transition amid insecurity and chaos ever since the fall of former leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI, Aug 25 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Libya&#8217;s east-based army on Saturday denied responsibility for an airstrike in southern part of the capital Tripoli that killed three civilians. &#8220;Our armed air force denies targeting any civilian car in Sawani area of southern Tripoli that killed a number of civilians,&#8221; Ahmad al-Mismari, the army&#8217;s spokesman, said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/39166"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}