{"id":6338,"date":"2025-12-23T20:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6338"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:54:03","slug":"libyas-army-chief-killed-in-air-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6338","title":{"rendered":"Libya&#8217;s army chief killed in air crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Libyan army chief has been killed in an air crash in Turkey, Libya&#8217;s prime minister has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Gen Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and four others were on board a Falcon 50 aircraft flying out of the Turkish capital, Ankara.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a post on X, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said signal with the business jet was lost at 20:52 local time (17:52 GMT) &#8211; about 42 minutes after it took off from Ankara&#8217;s airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Tripoli-bound jet had issued an emergency landing request before contact was lost.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the prime minister of Libya&#8217;s internationally-recognised Government of National Unity, said he had received news of the death of Gen Haddad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The prime minister added that other Libyan military officials were on board the jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Gen Haddad and his team had been in Turkey for talks aimed at further strengthening military and security co-operation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Libyas #army #chief #killed #air #crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Libyan army chief has been&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}