{"id":2718,"date":"2014-06-16T11:15:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T04:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2014-06-16T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T04:15:42","slug":"fresh-clashes-broke-out-in-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/fresh-clashes-broke-out-in-benghazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh clashes broke out in Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh clashes broke out in Benghazi, Libya&#8217;s second-biggest city on Sunday after a rogue general launched a fresh assault on Islamist militants.<\/p>\n<p>Tanks were seen on the streets and explosions could be heard throughout the day in Libya&#8217;s second-biggest city.<\/p>\n<p>General Khalifa Haftar, who accuses the government of supporting terrorism, began an assault against Islamist fighters in the city last month.<\/p>\n<p>The government in Tripoli says Gen Haftar has no authority to act, but several army units have joined him.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Rana Jawad in Tripoli says a battalion within one of the biggest rival militias has also defected to join the general&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-27862365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh clashes broke out in Benghazi, Libya&#8217;s second-biggest city on Sunday after a rogue general launched a fresh assault on Islamist militants. Tanks were seen on the streets and explosions could be heard throughout the day in Libya&#8217;s second-biggest city. General Khalifa Haftar, who accuses the government of supporting terrorism, began an assault against Islamist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891,299],"tags":[258,256,896,893,894,658,895,4711,892,257,4694,254,897],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","category-north-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assault-on-islamist-militants","tag-benghazi","tag-general-khalifa-haftar","tag-islamist-militants","tag-khalifa-haftar","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}