{"id":343,"date":"2015-01-03T08:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T08:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=343"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:25:04","slug":"militants-in-libya-killed-17-soldiers-one-civilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/militants-in-libya-killed-17-soldiers-one-civilian\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants in Libya killed 17 soldiers, one civilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A group of heavily-armed militants has shot dead 17 soldiers and one civilian in a troubled part of central Libya, officials say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Hegazi, a Libyan army spokesman, said militants attacked a military checkpoint in the district of Jufra on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but security officials put the blame on certain militiamen and militant groups, who have carried out similar assaults in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Hegazi has blamed the attacks on &#8220;terrorists roaming the desert areas freely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On December 25, attackers killed at least 22 soldiers after a surprise assault, in which they used speedboats in a failed bid to seize some of Libya&#8217;s main oil terminals.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers belonging to the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) launched the raid on the northern al-Sidra port by firing rockets from the speedboats, setting an oil tank on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-government forces have also lost ground in the eastern city of Benghazi, where militants have beheaded and killed several people over the past few months.<\/p>\n<p>During the two months leading up to mid-December, around 450 people were killed and another 90,000 were forced to flee their homes in Benghazi.<\/p>\n<p>Libya plunged into chaos following the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar\u00a0Gaddafi. The ouster gave rise to a patchwork of heavily-armed militias and deep political divisions.<\/p>\n<p>The groups are now turning their guns on each other in an attempt to dominate politics and the country\u2019s vast oil resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2015\/01\/03\/391345\/Militants-shoot-dead-18-in-southern-Libya\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of heavily-armed militants has shot dead 17 soldiers and one civilian in a troubled part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[355,105,15,11],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-libya","tag-militants","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Libyan-soldiers.jpg?fit=600%2C337&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-5x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}