Khalifa Haftar-led Libyan National Army (LNA) on Sunday claimed to have destroyed a Turkish drone parked at Mitiga International Airport in capital Tripoli."Our fighter [jets] targeted and destroyed a Turkish Bayraktar aircraft as it was taking off," the LNA said in a statement on Facebook, as cited by Al Jazeera. "The aircraft had been prepared to target our armed forces' positions."The development has come hours after Turkey's Foreign Ministry accused Haftar's forces of arresting six of its citizens, and warned that the LNA would become a "legitimate target" if the citizens were not released immediately.In the wake of the incident, authorities have suspended flights at the Mitiga airport. Notably, Mitiga was the only functioning civilian airport in Tripoli.Libya has been largely divided into two factions ever since the death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The LNA controls the eastern part of Libya, while the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) governs Libya's western region .
