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Libya's Mitiga airport halts air traffic after air strike - statement

Cairo, July 22 (Reuters) - The Libyan capital Tripoli's Mitiga airport halted air traffic on Monday after the facility was attacked in an air strike, according to a post on the airport authority's Facebook page.
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DM-Libya Libyan strongman Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar who heads the self-styled Libyan National Army. (Photo: EPA / Jamal Nasrallah)

No further details were given. Mitiga is the only working airport in Tripoli, which has been under attack for three months by the eastern-based Libyan National Army commanded by Khalifa Haftar.

(Reporting By Ayman al-Warfalli, Writing by Ahmed Tolba, Samar Ahmed, Editing by William Maclean)

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