Drone strikes early Friday hit an airbase in Libya’s east utilized by mercenaries of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, with out inflicting any casualties, a army official instructed AFP.
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Drone assaults
The official, talking on situation of anonymity, stated the origin of the in a single day strikes on the Al-Kharruba airbase, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) southwest of Benghazi, was “unknown”.
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The bottom that was hit is “the place members of the Wagner group are situated”, the official stated, including there have been “no victims”.
Libya has been torn by greater than a decade of stop-start battle since a 2011 revolt toppled strongman Moamer Kadhafi, which has additionally drawn in a number of international powers.
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The North African nation stays break up between a nominally interim authorities in Tripoli within the west, and one other within the east backed by army strongman Khalifa Haftar.
Alongside fighters from Chad, Sudan, Niger and Syria recruited as mercenaries, the Wagner group has come to Haftar’s assist together with in his previous failed try to take the capital.
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Wagner mercenaries stay energetic in oil-rich jap Libya in addition to the nation’s south, although some had left to battle in Mali and Ukraine, supporting the Russian military’s invasion.
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