Libya's Government of National Unity (GNU) said it had conducted air strikes against smuggling networks on Thursday, with blasts hitting a western city that is home to armed factions that have backed a rival administration.
Three residents of Zawiya, just west of Tripoli, said they had heard explosions on Thursday with one also hearing gunfire. The city has been the site of sporadic clashes this year between factions that back and oppose the GNU.
While the Tripoli-based government has no known air power of its own, allied Turkish military forces have previously deployed drones in western Libya.
