Ukraine in Arabic | Blast in Libya: 40 soldiers killed in suicide bombings
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ At least 40 soldiers were killed by suicide attacks on Thursday in Libya’s second city of Benghazi, as militias fought for control of a key airbase.
Four suicide attacks targeted the Benina base and the soldiers who are supporting former General Khalifa Hifter.
Special army forces allied to brigades of Haftar have been fighting Islamist forces including Ansar-al-Sharia, blamed by the US for an attack on the US consulate in the city in September 2012 in which the US ambassador was killed.
Libya is being racked by violence as the armed groups which helped topple long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 have turned their guns on each other in a struggle to dominate politics and the country's vast oil resources.
The current crisis is rooted in the successive Libyan governments' dependence on those militias, originally anti-Gaddafi rebel forces, in restoring order in the absence of a strong national army or police.
Western powers worry Libya will become a failed state as a weak central government cannot control the competing armed groups in a country awash with arms.
