Libyan jets bomb armed groups in Benghazi

  29 May 2014    Read: 648
Libyan jets bomb armed groups in Benghazi
Libyan jets have bombed bases of armed groups in Benghazi as part of a self-declared campaign by a renegade former general to purge the North African country of religious hardline militias, Al Jazeera reported.
A Reuters witness and an air force official in Benghazi said two jets bombed a base belonging to the February 17th Brigade, one of the armed groups operating in the eastern city, and an Ansar al-Sharia base in the west of the city.

"Air raids targeted a camp of the February 17 Martyrs Brigades, hitting it with two missiles," Ahmed al-Jazaoui, a former rebel, also told the AFP news agency.

February 17 is one of the biggest and most powerful militias in Benghazi. It had its origin during the uprising against longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

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