Casualties from the battle for Libya's capital mounted on Tuesday while Isl...
TRIPOLI/GENEVA - Casualties from the battle for Libya’s capital mounted on Tuesday while Islamic State killed three people in a desert town, illustrating how jihadists may exploit renewed chaos.
The eastern Libyan National Army forces of Khalifa Haftar - a former general in ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s army - seized the sparsely populated but oil-rich south earlier this year before heading toward Tripoli this month. Far south of Tripoli, the jihadist Islamic State group claimed responsibility for attacking the town of Fuqaha, where residents said three people were killed and another kidnapped.
“There are fears that the civilian death toll will rise rapidly as the fighting intensifies and spreads into more densely populated parts of the city,” said Amnesty International’s regional deputy, Magdalena Mughrabi.
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