- Title: LIBYA-ITALIAN Italian doctor heads back home after six months in Libya as hostage
- Date: 14th June 2015
- Summary: TRIPOLI, LIBYA (JUNE 14, 2015) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ITALIAN PLANE ARRIVING AT MITIGA AIRPORT IN TRIPOLI VARIOUS OF ITALIAN DELEGATION GETTING OUT OF PLANE ITALIAN DELEGATION WALKING VARIOUS OF RELEASED ITALIAN DOCTOR IGANAZIO SCARAVILLI STANDING AT THE AIRPORT HALL WITH LIBYAN AND ITALIAN OFFICIALS SCARAVILLI WALKING OUT OF AIRPORT HALL SCARAVILLI SHAKING HANDS WITH LIBYAN
- Embargoed: 29th June 2015 13:00
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- Location: Libya
- Country: Libya
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Iganazio Scaravilli, an Italian doctor who was kidnapped in Libya in January, boarded a flight back home to Italy on Sunday (June 14).
He had been working as a volunteer in a hospital when he was believed to have been abducted by Islamic militants.
Scaravilli, 68, posed for photographs with Libyan officials before he boarded a small plane.
Islamist militants including those loyal to Islamic State have profited from the security vacuum in Libya, where two rival governments and their armed forces are battling for control four years after the fall of Gaddafi.
An internationally recognised government works in the east and is backed by some former Gaddafi army loyalists. Another self-declared government has governed Tripoli since a group called Libya Dawn, an alliance of former rebels and Islamist-leaning brigades, took over the capital last summer.
Forces from both governments have been fighting Islamic State but also each other in a conflict where military alliances are often fluid and based on local interests. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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