{"id":4975,"date":"2014-08-25T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2014-08-25T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T07:41:01","slug":"libya-crisis-tensions-rise-as-tripoli-airport-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-crisis-tensions-rise-as-tripoli-airport-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya crisis: Tensions rise as Tripoli airport seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An armed militia alliance in Libya has captured Tripoli&#8217;s international airport after a battle lasting nearly a month.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist-affiliated forces from Misrata and other cities took over the airport from the Zintan militia, which has held it for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Libya&#8217;s new parliament, largely opposed to the Islamists, condemned the move.<\/p>\n<p>Violence in Libya has surged recently between the rival groups who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 uprising.<\/p>\n<p>The airport, Libya&#8217;s largest, has been closed for over a month because of the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds have died since fighting broke out in Tripoli in July. Millions of dollars in damage has been caused to the airport&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Libya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28916417\" 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>An armed militia alliance in Libya has captured Tripoli&#8217;s international airport after a battle lasting nearly a month. Islamist-affiliated forces from Misrata and other cities took over the airport from the Zintan militia, which has held it for three years. Libya&#8217;s new parliament, largely opposed to the Islamists, condemned the move. Violence in Libya has [&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":[258,256,3755,3758,565,4711,892,3046,2687,257,4694,254,897,3756,3757],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed-militia","tag-islamist-affiliated-forces-from-misrata","tag-islamists","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-misrata","tag-muammar-gaddafi","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tripoli","tag-tripolis-international-airport","tag-zintan-militia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","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=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/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=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}