From Al Arabiya News/Written By Ulf Laessing

Commercial flights from Libya to mainland Europe resumed after more than six months on Saturday with a Libyan carrier taking off to Germany, the airline said.

Foreign airlines stopped flying to Libya in July when a faction called Libya Dawn attacked a rival group controlling Tripoli’s main airport, taking control of the capital after a month of fighting.

Libya Dawn has set up a rival government and forced the internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni to the east.

The airport and some 20 planes were damaged during the fighting, officials have said.

Turkish Airlines briefly returned last year to fly to Misrata, east of Tripoli, before halting flights this month due to repeated air strikes on the airport, part of a struggle between Libya’s two governments.

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