{"id":3489,"date":"2018-05-07T22:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2018-05-07T22:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:17:38","slug":"khalifa-haftar-announces-offensive-to-take-derna-from-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/07\/khalifa-haftar-announces-offensive-to-take-derna-from-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"KHALIFA HAFTAR ANNOUNCES OFFENSIVE TO TAKE DERNA FROM TERRORISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Al Arabiya<\/p>\n

Strongman Khalifa Haftar announced a military offensive on Monday to take from \u201cterrorists\u201d the city of Derna, the only part of eastern Libya outside his forces\u2019 control.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe zero hour has struck for the liberation of Derna,\u201d said Haftar, declaring his troops had already started to crush the \u201cbastions of terrorists\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n

Dressed in uniform, he was speaking from a military parade in the city of Benghazi in which thousands of soldiers from his self-styled army demonstrated their might.<\/p>\n

Marshal Haftar celebrated the fourth anniversary since launching his \u201canti-terrorist\u201d operation, which saw extremists driven out of Benghazi — the home of Libya\u2019s 2011 revolution.<\/p>\n

His announcement comes two weeks after he returned to Benghazi following a long stay abroad, during which he was hospitalized in Paris.<\/p>\n

The strongman of eastern Libya said he had instructed his troops to spare the 150,000 residents of Derna, who have been under the control of the pro-al-Qaeda Mujahedeen Shura Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Al Arabiya Strongman Khalifa Haftar announced a military offensive on Monday to take from \u201cterrorists\u201d the city of Derna, the only part of eastern Libya outside his forces\u2019 control. \u201cThe zero hour has struck for the liberation of Derna,\u201d said Haftar, declaring his troops had already started to crush the \u201cbastions of terrorists\u201d in… Continue reading KHALIFA HAFTAR ANNOUNCES OFFENSIVE TO TAKE DERNA FROM TERRORISTS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1859,546],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-khalifa-haftar","tag-libya","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}