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Forces loyal to Haftar threatens new air strikes on Tripoli

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epa04611935 Libyan soldiers gather at Martyrs Square before being deployed to secure Tripoli, Libya, 09 February 2015. According to media reports, security forces of the Central Security Administration were deployed in the capital as part of the Interior Ministry plan to secure the capital. Libya has in recent months seen its worst violence since the 2011 ouster of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi, after an Islamist-led militia seized the capital Tripoli, forcing the elected parliament and its government to relocate to the far eastern city of Tobruk. EPA/STR

Forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar threatened a barrage of new air strikes on Libya’s capital, a day after five soldiers were killed in air raids on Tripoli.

Urging residents to stay away from what he called “confrontation areas”, air force commander Mohamed Manfour of Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) said on Monday aerial bombardment will be stepped up because “traditional means” to “liberate Tripoli” had been exhausted.

Al Jazeera said five fighters aligned with the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) were killed and eight others wounded in overnight raids in the capital’s southern Salah al-Din neighbourhood.

“Military sources with the government in Tripoli said the fighter jet is most probably an F-16 and is either an Egyptian or Emirati aircraft.”

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is one of Haftar’s key backers and has in the past supplied the leader with military equipment, in violation of an international arms embargo on the North African country.

Via Al Jazeera 

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