The United Nations on Tuesday postponed a Libyan national conference aimed at drawing up an election road map because of fighting raging near the capital, in another setback to peace efforts.Eastern forces and troops loyal to the Tripoli government fought on the outskirts of Libya's capital on Wednesday as thousands of residents fled from the battle.
The Libyan National Army forces of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar held positions in the suburbs about 11 km south of the centre, with steel containers and pickups with mounted machine-guns blocking their way into the city. Residents reported LNA planes buzzing Tripoli and the sound of clashes in outskirts. Haftar's forces were engaging Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj's fighters at the former international airport, one soldier told Reuters.
The United Nations said at least 4,500 Tripoli residents had been displaced, most moving away from their homes in conflict areas to safer districts of the city. Many more were trapped, it said. The LNA forces moved out of their stronghold in east Libya to take the sparsely-populated but oil-rich south earlier this year, before heading a week ago towards Tripoli, where the internationally-recognised government of sits.
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