Smoke rises after a shelling at Tripoli International Airport July 15, 2014. The airport sustained extensive damage after coming under shellfire which killed two soldiers, knocked out the control tower and damaged 90 percent of planes parked there. The airport area is under the control of former fighters from the western town of Zintan who have held it since the fall of Tripoli in 2011. Rival Islamist-leaning militias fought with the Zintanis in recent days but failed to dislodge them. (Photo by Hani Amara/Reuters)
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