{"id":3936,"date":"2014-12-16T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2014-12-16T07:13:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T07:13:13","slug":"libya-islamists-press-advance-on-key-oil-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/12\/16\/3936\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Islamists press advance on key oil region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/libya-islamists.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Islamist fighters clashed with pro-government forces for the second consecutive day Sunday as they pressed an advance on a key oil region in eastern Libya, sources on both sides reported, according to Agence-France Presse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Libya Dawn (or Fajr Libya), an anti-government coalition of Islamist militias, said its men were advancing on al-Sidra oil terminal in al-Hilal region, which is also home to the Ras Lanuf and Brega terminals.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamist commander Tareq Shanina was quoted by a news agency linked to the group saying that his men &#8220;advanced toward Al-Sidra&#8221; and were coming under air attack from pro-government forces.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shanina said Libya Dawn fired anti-aircraft guns in response.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An official with a unit guarding oil installations said clashes were under way around Al-Sidra, Libya\u2019s largest oil terminal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ras Jedir<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a separate development, at least 17 Libya Dawn militiamen were killed in an air strike by pro-government forces near the Ras Jedir border crossing with Tunisia, a military source said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The military source, who declined to be named, said Sunday\u2019s air raid near Ras Jedir was carried out by forces loyal to anti-Islamist ex-general Khalifa Haftar who is fighting to crush Islamists who control swathes of Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Continuing clashes<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Saturday, Fajr Libya launched a three-pronged attack to seize control of al-Hilal but pro-government forces backed by air force jets and helicopters repelled the assault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The air raids were followed by clashes on the ground that tapered off in the evening only to resume again Sunday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More than three years after Dictator Muammar Qaddafi was toppled and killed in a NATO-backed revolt, Libya is still awash with weapons and powerful militias, and has rival parliaments as well as governments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamists have seized Tripoli and second city Benghazi in the east, and forces loyal to international recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani are fighting to regain control of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<strong><em> Alarabiya<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist fighters clashed with pro-government forces for the second consecutive day Sunday as they pressed an advance on a key oil region in eastern Libya, sources on both sides reported, according to Agence-France Presse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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