FILE PHOTO: Salah Badi, head of Al Somoud Brigade, speaks during an interview with Reuters, in Misrata, Libya November 26, 2018. To match Insight LIBYA-SECURITY/ REUTERS/Ayman al-Sahili/File Photo
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - For the United Nations, it was a chance to clip the wings of powerful armed groups who had held the levers of power in the Libyan capital for years.
The militia were on the back foot after suffering losses to rival factions in the latest convulsion of violence to shake Tripoli; the UN brokered a ceasefire in September, then encouraged the government to start replacing the militia with regular police.
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