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Unidentified warplanes conducted four airstrikes on Monday near the Libyan capital, Tripoli, leaving one dead and five wounded, a spokesman for Libya’s Islamist-allied militias and a militia commander said. A recent series of airstrikes, which American officials have said were carried out by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, has reinforced the perception that Libya has become a proxy battleground for larger regional struggles — with Turkey and Qatar backing the Islamist militias, and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. supporting their opponents. Mohammed al-Gharyani, a spokesman for the Libya Dawn militia alliance, said the airstrikes on Monday hit the town of Gharyan, 50 miles south of Tripoli. A militia commander said the strikes had targeted Libya Dawn ammunition warehouses and weapons depots. Unidentified warplanes conducted four airstrikes on Monday near Tripoli, leaving one dead and five wounded, a spokesman for Libya’s Islamist-allied militias and a militia commander said. Mohammed al-Gharyani, a spokesman for the Libya Dawn militia alliance, said the airstrikes hit the town of Gharyan, 50 miles south of Tripoli. A militia commander said the strikes had targeted Libya Dawn ammunition warehouses and weapons depots.