{"id":4046,"date":"2014-07-14T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T04:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2014-07-14T11:14:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T04:14:01","slug":"libya-airport-hit-by-heavy-fighting-between-militias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-airport-hit-by-heavy-fighting-between-militias\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya airport hit by heavy fighting between militias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy fighting between militias with anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades has broken out near the airport of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist militias attacked the rival Zintan group, which controls Libya&#8217;s international airport in Tripoli, triggering fierce clashes that halted flights, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The exchanges with heavy weapons, which rival armed groups retain from the 2011 Nato-backed uprising that toppled the longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi, were heard in the city centre, 15 miles (25km) away.<\/p>\n<p>British Airlines and Turkish Airways cancelled their flights, while thick smoke could be seen near the airport, residents said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/13\/libya-airport-heavy-fighting-militias-tripoli-islamist-zintan\" 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>Heavy fighting between militias with anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades has broken out near the airport of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Islamist militias attacked the rival Zintan group, which controls Libya&#8217;s international airport in Tripoli, triggering fierce clashes that halted flights, officials said. The exchanges with heavy weapons, which rival armed groups retain from the [&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":[258,256,2684,4711,892,2685,2687,2688,257,4694,254,897,2686],"class_list":["post-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-islamist-militias","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-libyas-international-airport-in-tripoli","tag-muammar-gaddafi","tag-nato-backed-uprising","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli","tag-zintan-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","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=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/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=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}