{"id":3825,"date":"2014-07-09T15:23:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2014-07-09T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T08:23:22","slug":"ex-libyan-general-battling-islamist-militias-faces-dwindling-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/ex-libyan-general-battling-islamist-militias-faces-dwindling-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Libyan general battling Islamist militias faces dwindling support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tripoli, Libya \u2014 Just weeks after he launched a popular revolt against the Islamist militants plaguing Libya\u2019s east, rogue general Khalifa Hifter already is losing support for his war.<\/p>\n<p>Many Libyans applauded Hifter\u2019s push to drive extremists out of the eastern city of Benghazi when he first announced the military operation in May. After suffering years of armed attacks with little response from the government, Libyans saw in Hifter a bold figure willing to hit back at the gunmen stalking their streets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/libyan-ex-general-battling-islamist-militias-faces-dwindling-support-amid-stalemate\/2014\/07\/07\/8dc67937-3240-4cbf-b177-d0e30471b25b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripoli, Libya \u2014 Just weeks after he launched a popular revolt against the Islamist militants plaguing Libya\u2019s east, rogue general Khalifa Hifter already is losing support for his war. Many Libyans applauded Hifter\u2019s push to drive extremists out of the eastern city of Benghazi when he first announced the military operation in May. After suffering [&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],"tags":[258,256,893,658,1819,4711,892,257,4694,2398,254],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benghazi","tag-islamist-militants","tag-khalifa-hifter","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-rogue-general-khalifa-hifter","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","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=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/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=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}