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Military offensive on Tripoli : air attacks rise of Haftar troops

The Libyan Haftar's militia was attacked according to own data in their advance on Tripoli from the air. The attack was to take place 50 kilometres South of th

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Military offensive on Tripoli : air attacks rise of Haftar troops

The Libyan Haftar's militia was attacked according to own data in their advance on Tripoli from the air. The attack was to take place 50 kilometres South of the capital, in the Region of Al-Asisija, informed Haftars LNA (Libyan National army).

The plane was launched after the LNA in the Western Libyan city of Misrata. The troops stationed there are largely loyal to the government in Tripoli.

On Friday, had called on the United Nations, the renegade Libyan General Khalifa Haftar to stop the military offensive on the capital, Tripoli. The UN security Council called on Haftars troops, "all troop movements". Also, the foreign Ministers of the G7 countries called for the immediate cessation of the fighting in Libya and warned that civilians were in danger.

Haftars troops had launched on Thursday an Offensive on Tripoli. The advance began, while the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, was in Libya to find a political solution to the crisis in the country.

In a meeting with Guterres on Friday Haftar have made it clear that he plans no interruption of the Offensive, reported to the UN special representative Ghassan Salame to the security Council, according to diplomats information. Before his departure, Mr Guterres had met during his visit the chief of the internationally recognized government, Fajes al-Sarradsch, was, "deeply concerned".

the foreign Ministers of The G7 countries requested at a Meeting in the French Dinard, the parties to the conflict should "all the activities and all movements of troops in Tripoli to" immediately end. The recent skirmishes in the vicinity of Tripoli, the disabled, the efforts of the United Nations for a political process in the war-torn country. There is no military solution to the conflict, stressed the G7 Ministers. The new violence only civilians would be endangered.

The G7 were very concerned, said foreign Minister Heiko Maas . "it was good that the security Council of the United Nations has once again given a clear Signal that the circuit must be of a military escalation," said the SPD politician on Saturday in the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, on the edge of discussions with his counterparts in the G7 group. The Signal of the security Council was also directed to clear to the Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, whose forces on the capital, Tripoli advanced, said Maas.

Since the fall of al-Gaddafi in 2011, reigns in the Land of Chaos

In the vicinity of the Libyan capital Tripoli had supplied Pro-government militias on Friday in heavy fighting with troops Haftars. The Libyan National army (LNA) had conquered, temporarily, the destroyed airport of the city, before they were beaten back, according to the government. A spokesman of Haftars troops spoke of "an important step".

Since the fall of Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2011, African country, Chaos reigns in the North. The so-called unity government in Tripoli is weak and has large parts of the country under control. Numerous militias have spread in the country, and are allied in various ways with the unity government in Tripoli or the counter-government in the East.

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