{"id":198543,"date":"2025-05-21T18:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-civilians-caught-in-militia-clashes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:09:37","slug":"libya-civilians-caught-in-militia-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-civilians-caught-in-militia-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Civilians Caught in Militia Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Beirut \u2014 <em>Civilians Killed, Homes Destroyed, Protesters Attacked<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Rival armed groups and quasi-state forces in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/libya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Libya<\/a> failed to protect civilians during clashes in Tripoli last week, leading to civilian deaths and damage to homes, Human Rights Watch said today. Judicial authorities should urgently investigate allegations of abuses and violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Heavy fighting broke out between armed groups in the Libyan capital on May 12 following the killing of Abdelghani &#8220;Ghneiwa&#8221; al-Kikli, commander of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505210055.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut \u2014 Civilians Killed, Homes Destroyed, Protesters Attacked Rival armed groups and quasi-state forces in Libya failed to protect civilians during clashes in Tripoli last week, leading to civilian deaths and damage to homes, Human Rights Watch said today. Judicial authorities should urgently investigate allegations of abuses and violations. Heavy fighting broke out between armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,6646,13304,12379,4711,892,460,257,254],"class_list":["post-198543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caught","tag-civilians","tag-clashes","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-militia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}