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Monday, May 19, 2014

Libyan air force base in eastern city says joins renegade general's forces

Smoke rises over the General National Congress building in Tripoli By Feras Bosalum and Ulf Laessing TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan air force base in the eastern city of Tobruk on Monday joined the forces of a renegade general who had stormed the Libyan parliament to demand its suspension. "The Torbuk air force base will join...the army under the command of General Khalifa Qassim Haftar," a statement posted on social media said. The Tripoli government has denounced Haftar as trying to stage a coup as it struggles to assert authority on a country awash with militias who toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but now defy state authority.




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