{"id":54628,"date":"2019-12-14T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T01:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54628"},"modified":"2019-12-14T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T01:27:51","slug":"libyan-east-based-general-orders-forces-to-capture-capital-from-un-backed-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54628","title":{"rendered":"Libyan east-based general orders forces to capture capital from UN-backed government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/Libyan-general-orders-forces-to-capture-capital-814087?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/951\/95114709.295.jpg\" alt=\"General Haftar's forces have been restricted in Tripoli's outskirts by UN-backed government troop\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>General Haftar&#8217;s forces have been restricted in Tripoli&#8217;s outskirts by UN-backed government troop<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TRIPOLI, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Libyan east-based military strongman General Khalifa Haftar has called on his forces to begin an advance aimed at capturing the capital, Tripoli.<br><br>The General&#8217;s statement came in a rare, live television broadcast.<br><br>In April, he launched a major attempt to seize the city &#8211; which is held by Libya&#8217;s UN-backed government.<br><br>But the General&#8217;s forces met resistance, and they have long been bogged down in Tripoli&#8217;s southern outskirts.<br><br>There were no reports of any increased military activity in the area in the immediate aftermath of the television broadcast.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Haftar&#8217;s forces have been restricted in Tripoli&#8217;s outskirts by UN-backed government troop TRIPOLI, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Libyan east-based military strongman General Khalifa Haftar has called on his forces to begin an advance aimed at capturing the capital, Tripoli. The General&#8217;s statement came in a rare, live television broadcast. In April, he launched 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\/54628"}],"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=54628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}