The Greek frigate Salamis, which can carry up to 100 evacuees, is expected to arrive in Libya on Thursday evening, a defense ministry official said. A second naval vessel, Prometheus, and a passenger ferry are expected to help evacuate workers from countries including Britain and Cyprus, officials said.
The past two weeks of fighting between rival militias in Libya have been the worst since the civil war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, prompting Western governments to follow the United States and the United Nations in pulling their diplomats out of the North African country.
France closed its embassy on Wednesday and evacuated 30 French nationals from Tripoli, a few days after the U.S. embassy evacuated its staff across the Tunisian border under heavy military escort.
Greek passenger ships evacuated more than 10,000 foreigners, mainly Chinese workers, from Libya when fighting flared in 2011. REUTERS
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Islamists storm Benghazi base as chaos grips Libya (Special Forces had to abandon their main camp)
Islamists declare ‘Islamic emirate’ in east Libya...
Paris évacue des ressortissants français et britanniques de Libye...
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Λιβύη: Δεξαμενές Καυσίμων Φλέγονται Κοντά στο Αεροδρόμιο της Τρίπολης
Second oil depot catches fire in Tripoli (government)
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Islamic hard-line militias, including the group accused by the United States in a 2012 attack that killed the ambassador and three other Americans, claimed control of Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, after overrunning army barracks and seizing heavy weapons.....
ReplyDeleteThe sweep in the eastern city is part of a new backlash by hard-liners against their rivals ahead of the sitting of a new parliament. In the capital Tripoli, escalating battles yesterday between militias prompted multiple foreign governments to scramble to get out their citizens as thousands of Libyans fled across the border into Tunisia.
The weeks-long surge of violence renewed fears that Libya, which has been in chaos since the 2011 civil war that ousted longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is plunging deeper into civil strife..............http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Libya-Islamic-militias-declare-control-of-Benghazi/articleshow/39386382.cms
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