![]() ambassador - approached the town from several fronts. Haftar has said his air force joined the battle when Ansar al-Sharia - blamed by Washington for an attack on its consulate in 2012 that killed the U.S. AIR STRIKESĬollapsed roofs in several residential buildings and the mosque in Benina point to air strikes. Fighting was continuing on Tuesday in other parts of Benghazi, the cradle of the 2011 uprising that spiraled into a NATO-backed civil war against Gaddafi’s one-man rule. Unless the chest is the one in the camp I didn’t actually see the. There is a darfari camp, but nothing else. I went down there and searched around the entire rock formation. Can’t seem to see what this does, someone on reddit said there is a chest on the point of impact. It does a T pose and jumps away to its doom. More than 70 people have been killed in clashes since Wednesday. There is a ghost on i5 of map, on top of a huge rock formation. Benina looks like ghost town.Ī Reuters reporter on a tour of the suburb organized by the army saw that almost all residential blocks, schools, a hospital and even a mosque were severely damaged or even destroyed. The regular army, like other Libyan institutions too weak to control rival armed factions, has now teamed up in Benghazi with forces of former general Khalifa Haftar, an ex-Gaddafi general who started his own campaign against Islamists in May.īut the rare victory of pro-government forces after an offensive launched on Wednesday comes at a heavy price. A chaotic struggle for control of the city after special forces were driven out has for months pitted government forces and irregular units against a coalition of Islamist brigades. The battle for Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, and its surroundings runs parallel to the Tripoli conflict. It has since set up an alternative government, while the country’s elected legislature and the internationally recognized administration is holed up in the eastern city of Tobruk. One armed faction with ties to the western city of Misrata took over the capital Tripoli after forcing out rival armed groups. ![]() The violence has reinforced Western fears that Libya may be sliding into civil war as rival former rebel groups who helped topple Gaddafi use their heavy weaponry to carve out fiefdoms. The Benghazi clashes involving warplanes, tanks and artillery were among the worst since 2011. “We’ve liberated Benina,” Bukhamada said, working from a farm-turned-office equipped with a fax machine and Thuraya satellite phone. His forces managed to stop an offensive of Islamist armed groups trying to take the airport in Benina, some 25 km (miles) south of the eastern city - just one battle in wider chaos gripping the major oil producer three years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. In 'Prank Callers' when the main characters are in the 80s, they crash into an electronics store and a cashier asks if they need anything in a voice that sounds like Hi Five Ghost. BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) - Sitting in one of the last buildings still intact after months of fighting near Benghazi’s airport, Libyan army special forces commander Wanis Bukhamada presides over a world of destruction. ![]()
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