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Turkey Warns Libyan Rebel Leader over Escalation in Fighting

HeadlineMay 11, 2020

Libya’s capital city Tripoli was rocked by a barrage of missile fire over the weekend, as forces aligned with renegade former Libyan General Khalifa Haftar fired on U.N.-backed government forces, setting fire to airplanes and fuel tanks at Tripoli’s main airport and threatening the city’s main water supply. The surge in fighting prompted Turkey’s government to threaten new attacks on General Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya.

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