{"id":38902,"date":"2019-04-08T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38902"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:22:23","slug":"us-pulls-troops-from-libya-amid-a-surge-in-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38902","title":{"rendered":"US pulls troops from Libya amid a surge in violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The United States military pulled a contingent of its troops from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/20\/world\/libya-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Libya<\/a> on Sunday amid a surge in violence in the capital city of Tripoli, America&#8217;s top commander for Africa said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The security realities on the ground in Libya are growing increasingly complex and unpredictable,&#8221; Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, head of US Africa Command, said Sunday in a statement. &#8220;Even with an adjustment of the force, we will continue to remain agile in support of existing US strategy.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The American forces, who provide military support for diplomatic missions, counterterrorism activities and improving regional security, have been relocated temporarily in response to &#8220;increased unrest.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The United States military pulled a contingent of its troops from Libya on Sunday amid a surge in violence in the capital city of Tripoli, America&#8217;s top commander for Africa said.&#8221;The security realities on the ground in Libya are growing increasingly complex and unpredictable,&#8221; Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, head of US Africa Command, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}