{"id":4174,"date":"2014-07-17T14:54:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T07:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T07:54:39","slug":"libya-considers-call-for-help-after-rocket-attacks-close-tripoli-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-considers-call-for-help-after-rocket-attacks-close-tripoli-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya considers call for help after rocket attacks close Tripoli airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Libya&#8217;s government is considering calling for international forces to help re-establish security after deadly clashes closed Tripoli airport, severing air links with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s airport \u2013 closed due to the fighting between liberal and Islamist militias \u2013 came under renewed attack late on Monday when dozens of rockets were fired, killing a security guard and injuring six others, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Jilani al-Dahech, a security official at Tripoli airport, said the control tower was hit along with a plane belonging to private Libyan carrier Buraq Airlines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/15\/libya-tripoli-airport-closed-rocket-attacks\" 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>Libya&#8217;s government is considering calling for international forces to help re-establish security after deadly clashes closed Tripoli airport, severing air links with the outside world. The country&#8217;s airport \u2013 closed due to the fighting between liberal and Islamist militias \u2013 came under renewed attack late on Monday when dozens of rockets were fired, killing a [&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":[258,256,2819,2821,2684,4711,892,257,4694,2820,254,897,2742],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-buraq-airlines","tag-islamist-militias","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-rockets","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli","tag-tripoli-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","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=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/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=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}