UN mission in Libya urges immediate de-escalation in Tripoli
Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah ordered in May the dismantling of what he called irregular armed groups, which was followed by Tripoli's fiercest clashes in years between two armed groups that killed at least eight civilians.
"The Mission continues its efforts to help de-escalate the situation and calls on all parties to engage in good faith towards this end ... Forces recently deployed in Tripoli must withdraw without delay," the U.N. Mission said on social media.
A Tripoli-based Government of National Unity under al-Dbeibah was installed through a U.N.-backed process in 2021 but the Benghazi-based House of Representatives no longer recognises its legitimacy.
Libya has had little stability since a 2011 NATO-backed uprising ousted longtime autocrat Muammar Gaddafi. The country split in 2014 between rival eastern and western factions, though an outbreak of major warfare paused with a truce in 2020.
While eastern Libya has been dominated for a decade by commander Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army, control in Tripoli and western Libya has been splintered among numerous armed factions.
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