Libya has appealed to Italy, Germany and the United States to send firefighters. Reuters Firefighters worked Monday to extinguish a blaze at Libya’s largest oil terminal, where storage tanks have been burning for days amid fighting. The fire at As Sidra terminal in eastern Libya ignited after a rocket hit an oil storage tank. Some 800,000 barrels of crude have been destroyed. Extremist groups are making a renewed push to seize the country’s oil resources, Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Dayri said Sunday, according to the Associated Press. He said the assault on eastern oil terminals was carried out by militias based in the western city of Misrata, who are loyal to a rival Islamist-backed government in the capital Tripoli. The internationally recognized government is based in the eastern city of Tobruk. As Sidra is controlled by anti-Islamist militiamen allied with that government. Crude-oil futures prices closed at five-year […]