The Libyan army, which is affiliated with the internationally recognized legal government, achieved an important victory in the western region, after its complete control of Al-Wattia Air Force Base, which is the largest concentration of the militia of retired Libyan Major General Khalifa Hifter, west of the capital, Tripoli. Observers of the Libyan issue see the fall of the Al-Wattia air base (140 km southwest of Tripoli) as a strategic shift in the Libyan crisis, as it dashes the hopes of Haftar and his forces to enter the capital after it lost all its strongholds in the Libyan West.
Tripoli celebrates the fall of the al-Watiyah base and the withdrawal of Haftar's forces
2020-05-21T18:31:21.386Z
The Libyan army, which is affiliated with the internationally recognized legitimate government, achieved an important victory in the western region, after its complete control of the Al-Wattia Air Force Base, which is the largest concentration of the militia of retired Libyan Major General Khalifa Hifter.
Source: aljazeera