UN: 220 people were killed in battles for Libya's capital in the last 2 weeks.
Women take part in a protest in Tripoli, Libya as they wave national flags and chant slogans against Libya's Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, who is leading an offensive to take over the capital of Tripoli, Friday, April 19, 2019.
Ahmed al-Mesmari, LNA spokesman, told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that heavy clashes have been underway between his forces and rival militias in the towns of Swany and al-Aziziya, south of Tripoli, which Hifters forces seized earlier this month. Residents in Tripoli said Hifters forces seem to be making small progress and gains on the ground. They said fighting has been ongoing in residential areas, a few kilometers south of Tripoli. Both sides have used heavy artillery and airstrikes, they said.The fighting has killed 220 people, including civilians, since Hifter declared his offensive on April 5, the U.N.Presidentphoned Hifter earlier this week, expressing U.S. support for the leaders perceived stance against terrorism.
AP reporters saw Hifters foreign minister Saturday in the Tunis hotel where he was staying, but the press conference he had scheduled was postponed at the last minute.
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