Libya Update – Mitiga airport reopens

The Libyan authorities on Wednesday reopened Tripoli’s Mitiga International Airport after a two-week closure due to clashes between rival armed groups. The airport is now set to receive its first flight at 6:00 p.m. local time, airport spokesman Khaled Bu-Gharsa told Anadolu Agency.

On Sept. 12, all operations at the airport were suspended after several artillery shells fell in the area. Since August 26, the capital has seen on-again, off-again clashes between armed groups loyal to Libya’s Tripoli-based unity government and others said to oppose it.

On Tuesday, the “Tripoli Protection Force” — affiliated with the unity government — assumed control of the capital’s southern districts.

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