{"id":4573,"date":"2014-07-30T20:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2014-07-30T20:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:10:47","slug":"libya-militias-seize-benghazi-special-forces-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-militias-seize-benghazi-special-forces-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya militias seize Benghazi special forces base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special forces base in the Libyan city of Benghazi has been seized by militias, fighters and officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The site was captured by Islamist-led militias after days of fighting in the eastern city, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Italy has offered to help extinguish a huge blaze that has engulfed the biggest fuel depot in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>Libya has been gripped by instability since the 2011 uprising, with swathes of the country controlled by militias.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have withdrawn from the [Benghazi] army base after heavy shelling,&#8221; Special Forces officer Fadel al-Hassi told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The fighters also confirmed in a statement that they had taken control of the base&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28557772\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special forces base in the Libyan city of Benghazi has been seized by militias, fighters and officials say. The site was captured by Islamist-led militias after days of fighting in the eastern city, officials said. Meanwhile, Italy has offered to help extinguish a huge blaze that has engulfed the biggest fuel depot in 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":[258,256,893,3320,3045,4711,892,257,4694,254],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benghazi","tag-fuel-depot-in-the-libyan-capital","tag-islamist-led-militias","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","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=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/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=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}