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Tripoli’s Mitiga International Airport has reopened to flights after being shut down for several hours.
Flights were suspended because of airstrikes aimed at forces loyal to the internationally recognised government, which is based in Tripoli in northwest Libya.
The airport closed earlier this month following an air strike, the first in an offensive by warlord Khalifa Haftar to take the capital. The latest attacks were aimed at the internationally recognised government’s military positions in the capital’s southern Al-Sabaa district, said Mohamed Younes, a spokesman for the Tripoli-based government. There were several explosions overnight, followed by anti-aircraft fire.
Forces loyal to Haftar are making a push on Tripoli, where PM Fayez al-Sarraj’s administration is based.