No truce in Libya: at least 32 dead since the beginning of Marshal Khalifa Haftar's offensive against Tripoli



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Several victims are civilianssaid the Minister of Health, A & Hmar Omar, in a statement on television.

For its part, on Saturday, the National Army of Libya (ENL) Marshal Khalifa Haftar announced that 14 of his soldiers had been killed during the Tripoli offensive.

Sunday, fierce fighting near Tripoli between the paramilitary forces of Marshal Haftar, who wants to conquer the capital, and the troops of the GNA, recognized by the UN and the international community, despite calls for the cessation of hostilities.

The United States asked Sunday "immediate cessation" of the Haftar offensive.

However, the great powers they did not result in a common position on the Libyan crisis in the UN.

Libya, a country rich in oil, has been divided into several factions since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. But there are two big sides who challenge the power and arrogate the legitimacy of the government.

The offensive launched Thursday by Marshal Haftarstrongman from the east of the country with capital in Tobruk, to conquer Tripoli and increase its influence over western Libya, marks the radicalization of the confrontation betweens two main entities fighting for power.

"There was no truce", told AFP a spokesman for MANUL.

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