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Libya's shaky deal between the Abdel Hamid Dubaiba-led regime in Tripoli and its counterpart in Tobruk under warlord Khalifa Haftar's clan is splitting at the seams over control of billions of dollars of oil revenues...
Officials in the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity have accused the of Gen Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army which backs the Tobruk parliament of funnelling oil and other funds illicitly via the bank (AC Vol 67 No 9 A power-sharing deal – based on oil drones and secret cash)...
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The agreement aimed at ending Libya's divisions struck in Tripoli on 30 August between officials of the internationally recognised government of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba and representatives of Benghazi-based warlord Khalifa Haftar started life as an elite pact...
Russia supports Benghazi-based warlord Khalifa Haftar...
It also flagged the involvement of the Benghazi-based Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar alongside the UAE in delivering weapons to the RSF...
In the east Saddam Haftar the son of warlord Khalifa Haftar presides over the National Development Agency a regional body which has signed the Magroun industrial zone deal with 13 Chinese firms...
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Libya's power-sharing arithmetic shifted further in the Haftar family's favour this month after Saddam Haftar son of the eastern commander Khalifa Haftar was publicly credited by freed American hostage Kevin Rideout for securing his release from an Islamic State affiliate in the Sahel...
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It was Libyan warlord General Khalifa Haftar's forces in that first flew a fully autonomous Turkish Bayraktar TB2 and Akinci drones in 2019 (AC Vol 60 No 16 Proxies battle over Tripoli)...
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Last week the EU commission agreed to set up a migrant relocation centre in Benghazi the eastern power centre of Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar...
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A compelling new investigation into how fighters loyal to eastern-based warlord Khalifa Haftar have trained fighters from Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is complicating a new US push to reunify Libya's divided political and military institutions...
The pressure ratcheted up on 29 June when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Khalifa Haftar's son Saddam Haftar in Washington DC to discuss plans to unify Libya's military economic and political bodies...
Boulos's Libya initiative which envisions Khalifa Haftar leading a presidential council ahead of elections earmarked for February 2027 depends on LNA goodwill (Dispatches 22/6/26 Factions set February election as US-brokered plan tests Haftar & AC Vol 67 No 9 A power-sharing deal – based on oil drones and secret cash)...
A series of investigations by the UN and independent institutions have highlighted the close relationship between LNA commander General Khalifa Haftar and his RSF counterpart Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti'...
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Yet the eastern-based warlord General Khalifa Haftar who is backed by Saleh's HoR has not publicly backed the election plan...
Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) has described Boulos's proposal as ‘a unique and distinctive initiative' and ‘a peaceful resolution to the political crisis' that would pave the way for ‘holding elections as soon as possible'...
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It stated that the Subul al Salam Battalion part of Gen Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army which controls the Benghazi-based government in eastern Libya had facilitated the transfer of the Colombian mercenaries as well as weapons and fuel across the border to support the RSF (AC Vol 66 No 9 Emiratis accused of shipping arms from the South)...
