Libya's Hifter: Tripoli （選挙などの）運動をする to continue にもかかわらず losses
CAIRO (AP) - The 軍の 指揮官 of eastern Libya-based 軍隊s said Saturday that they will continue fighting 軍隊s loosely 連合した with the U.N.-supported 政府 in Tripoli, even though his （選挙などの）運動をする has 苦しむd 後退s in 最近の weeks.
Khalifa Hifter, 指揮官 of the self-styled Libyan Arab 武装した 軍隊s, has been 行うing a （選挙などの）運動をする for over a year trying to 逮捕（する） the 資本／首都. The 軍の tide has been 逆転するd in 最近の weeks, and his 軍隊s lost several towns and a 重要な airbase.
Hifter´s 味方する 支配（する）／統制するs the country´s east and most of the south, while the U.N.-supported 政府 支配（する）／統制するs areas in the west, 含むing Tripoli.
In a two-minute 音声部の speech 演説（する）／住所d to his 軍隊s, Hifter said they "will fight and fight" against what he called "Turkish 植民地主義."
Turkey is 補佐官ing the 戦闘の準備を整えた 政府 in Tripoli. It has recently stepped up its 軍の support with 装甲の drones, 空気／公表する 弁護s and Syrian mercenaries with links to 極端論者 groups. That has helped turn the tide against Hifter´s 軍隊s, which are 支援するd by the 部隊d Arab 首長国s, Egypt and ロシアの mercenaries.
"To our 勇敢に立ち向かう officers and 兵士s, you are fighting a 宗教上の war that is open to all 前線s, a 包括的な war in which there is nothing but victory," Hifter said in the speech. "Every Turkish solider, mercenary sent by (Turkey's 大統領 Recep Tayyip) Erdogan to Libya and every 反逆者 who has 許すd the occupier to return is a 的 of our 武装した 軍隊s."
Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter looks on during his 会合 with Greek 総理大臣 Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Athens, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. The 指揮官 of anti-政府 軍隊s in war-torn Libya has begun 会合s in Athens in a 企て，努力，提案 to 反対する Turkey's support for his 対抗者s. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Col. Mohamed Gnounou, a 広報担当者 for the Tripoli-連合した 軍隊s, said Saturday that they 掴むd two 軍の （軍の）野営地，陣営s on the 郊外s of Tripoli that Hifter´s 軍隊s had 逮捕（する）d at the beginning of their （選挙などの）運動をする last year.
Hifter´s 味方する said its 闘士，戦闘機s were 単に 完全にするing a 退却／保養地 of 2 to 3 キロメーターs (about 2 miles) from Tripoli´s southern reaches to 許す families to visit each other 安全に in 祝賀 of the Eid al-Fitr holiday Sunday. It also said they had retaken the Yarmouk 軍の （軍の）野営地，陣営 and killed "large number of the 民兵s" and 逮捕（する）d a dozen others. It said they 発射 負かす／撃墜する two Turkish drones over southern Tripoli that were 的ing their 軍隊s.
The （人命などを）奪う，主張するs of the two 味方するs could not be 独立して 立証するd.
The U.S. 外交官／大使 to Libya, Richard Norland, called Saturday for a 停止（させる） to the "動揺させるing flow" of ロシアの and other foreign 軍の 器具／備品 and mercenaries into Libya.
"The needless 不快な／攻撃 agains t Tripoli must end so all foreign 軍隊s can 出発／死 and Libyan leaders who are 用意が出来ている to lay 負かす／撃墜する their 武器s can come together in 平和的な 対話 on the 問題／発行するs that divide them," Norland said during a phone call with Tripoli-based 総理大臣 Fayez Sarraj.
Aguila Saleh, the （衆議院の）議長 of Libya's 議会, called for the U.N. 安全 会議 to 身を引く its 承認 of the Tripoli-based 政府 and 任命する a new 行政 代表するing all Libyan 地域s.
In an 演説（する）／住所 目的（とする）d at the Libyan people on the eve of Eid el-Fitr, he also called for （疑いを）晴らすing Tripoli of "テロリスト groups" and a fair 配当 of the nation's oil and gas 歳入s.
The escalation in fighting comes にもかかわらず 増加するd international 圧力 on both 味方するs to return to 交渉するing a political 解決／入植地 and to 停止（させる） the 暴力／激しさ over 関心s about the spread of the coronavirus. Libya has 報告（する）／憶測d at least 75 事例／患者s of COVID-19, the illness 原因（となる）d by the ウイルス, 含むing three deaths.
The 石油に恵まれた国 has been in 騒動 since 2011, when a civil war 倒れるd long-time 独裁者 Moammar Gadhafi, who was later killed. Libya has since 分裂（する） between the 競争相手 行政s in the east and the west, each 支援するd by 武装した groups.
The 騒動 in Libya has 刻々と より悪くするd as foreign 支援者s ますます 介入する にもかかわらず 誓約（する）s to the contrary at a high-profile peace 首脳会議 in Berlin earlier this year.
