Ajdabiya

Warplanes from Libya's internationally recognised government have hit positions of the Islamic State group pushing eastward from their stronghold in Sirte toward the oil hub of Ajdabiya, a senior officer said Tuesday.

A Libyan commander in the forces of prominent anti-Islamist general Khalifa Haftar has been assassinated in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, military sources said today.

Rebel fighters fled Ajdabiya on Sunday after a rocket and artillery attack by government forces that were reportedly on the western outskirts. Scores of rebel pickup trucks and other vehicles could be seen leaving the eastern approaches of Ajdabiya, headed toward the rebel capital of Benghazi, about 85 miles north. Explosions could be heard in the ...

Rebels seized Ajdabiya on Saturday, government and rebel forces said, succeeding in an effort to retake this key town in the east following another night of allied air strikes against forces loyal to Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi. Libya's deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, acknowledged in a news conference that the Gaddafi government forces had "pulle...

Warplanes from Libya's internationally recognised government have hit positions of the Islamic State group pushing eastward from their stronghold in Sirte toward the oil hub of Ajdabiya, a senior officer said Tuesday.

A Libyan commander in the forces of prominent anti-Islamist general Khalifa Haftar has been assassinated in the eastern city of Ajdabiya, military sources said today.

Rebel fighters fled Ajdabiya on Sunday after a rocket and artillery attack by government forces that were reportedly on the western outskirts. Scores of rebel pickup trucks and other vehicles could be seen leaving the eastern approaches of Ajdabiya, headed toward the rebel capital of Benghazi, about 85 miles north. Explosions could be heard in the ...

Rebels seized Ajdabiya on Saturday, government and rebel forces said, succeeding in an effort to retake this key town in the east following another night of allied air strikes against forces loyal to Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi. Libya's deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, acknowledged in a news conference that the Gaddafi government forces had "pulle...