The place no airline will fly to

THE last remaining international airline offering flights to this destination has just called it quits. So why won’t anyone fly here?

TURKISH Airlines, the last remaining foreign carrier offering flights to Libya, said it is suspending all flights to the conflict-wracked country amid the worsening security situation.

The Turkish flag-carrier said that it had suspended flights to Misrata, its only remaining destination in the country after it had earlier pulled its flights to the capital Tripoli as well as Benghazi and the inland desert city of Sebha.

Fighters from the Islamist-backed Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) militia.

“We have suspended our Misrata flights until further notice, due to operational issues,” a company spokesman told AFP.

“Turkish Airlines is not operating any scheduled flights to Libya at the moment.”

Fighters from the Fajr Libya militia sit on pick up trucks with machineguns.

The country has descended into chaos since dictator Moamer Kadhafi was overthrown and killed in a 2011 NATO-backed uprising. It has rival governments and parliaments and is awash with arms and militias.

Young Libyans gather outside a makeshift house in the capital Tripoli.

Libya’s internationally recognised government said Monday that its aircraft bombed an oil tanker off the Islamist-held port of Derna, killing two crewmen, one of them Greek, and drawing condemnation from Athens.

Children play in an alley in Tripoli.