AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): "Our heroic forces have extended their control over the whole of Tarhuna," Mohamad Gnounou, the military spokesman for Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA), said on Friday.
The GNA’s operations room also announced in a statement that its forces had reached the center of Tarhouna after entering from four sides.
Tarhuna was the main launchpad for the 14-month offensive against the capital that Haftar's militias finally abandoned this week.
The Libyan government forces announced the full liberation of the capital Tripoli and its suburbs on Thursday after being besieged for more than a year by Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army.
The strongman, supported by the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan, launched a deadly offensive to capture Tripoli, the seat of the GNA, in April last year. His forces, however, haven’t been able to advance past the city’s outskirts.
International attempts to bring about peace between the two warring sides have also failed.
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