{"id":53620,"date":"2025-12-24T03:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53620"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:48:25","slug":"libyas-army-chief-killed-in-plane-crash-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=53620","title":{"rendered":"Libya\u2019s army chief killed in plane crash in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Libya\u2019s army chief was killed in a plane crash while returning home from an official visit to Turkey on Tuesday, the country\u2019s prime minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Gen. Mohamed Al-Haddad was killed along with four of his companions in a \u201ctragic accident\u201d while on flight home to Tripoli from an official visit to Ankara, Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith great sadness and sorrow, we have received the news of the death\u201d of Al-Haddad and four of his companions, al-Dbeibah added. The prime minister, who heads a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/05\/13\/africa\/libya-fighting-tripoli-united-nations-intl-hnk\">&nbsp;UN-backed Government of National Unity<\/a>, offered condolences to the families of the victims, calling the loss a tragedy for the nation and the military institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Dbeibah identified the four others killed as: Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces Maj. Gen. Al-Fitouri Ghreibel; Director of the Military Manufacturing Authority Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Al-Qatioui; adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Libyan Army, Mohamed Al-Asawi Diab; and media office photographer Mohamed Omar Ahmed Mahjoub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: Libya\u2019s army chief was killed in a plane crash while returning home from an official visit to Turkey on Tuesday, the country\u2019s prime minister said. Lt. Gen. Mohamed Al-Haddad was killed along with four of his companions in a \u201ctragic accident\u201d while on flight home to Tripoli from an official visit to Ankara, Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah said in a statement. \u201cWith great sadness and sorrow, we have received the news of the death\u201d of Al-Haddad and four of his companions, al-Dbeibah added. The prime minister, who heads a&nbsp;UN-backed Government of National Unity, offered condolences to the families of&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53622,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53620\/revisions\/53622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}