Death Toll Climbs in Tripoli Airport Clash

Six people have died and 25 are injured after hours of clashes between militias fighting for control of the airport in Libya's capital. Violence broke out early Sunday when an armed Islamist group attacked Zintan militiamen, who have controlled Tripoli International Airport since the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, in some of the worst fighting the country has seen in six months. The Operations Cell of Libyan Revolutionaries, a coalition of Islamist militias, claimed...

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