But the terms of Washington's proposed settlement – which would install Saddam Haftar the son of the long-time Benghazi warlord and self-styled commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar as head of a new presidential council while keeping Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in post – has run into fierce resistance...

These were underlined in a report published in early April by The Sentry a United States-based investigative NGO which found that a Dubai-based Libyan financier Ahmed Gadalla managed to facilitate loans worth more than $300 million as well as a massive money-printing exercise by the Central Bank of Libya to support General Khalifa Haftar's operations in eastern Libya...

A ceasefire gives them breathing space and time to train younger recruits from the Sahel and South Sudan while improving logistics by collaborating with Libya's eastern warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar Chadian President Idriss Déby Mahamat ‘Kaka' Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir...

Libya has ramped up its oil output to around a million barrels per day while keeping a lid on outright civil war between Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba's Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli and warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar's forces based around Benghazi...

Colombian mercenaries hired by UAE private military contractors operate in Darfur alongside the RSF in substantial numbers and are present in Eastern Libya which is under the control of warlord Khalifa Haftar...

Three months earlier as tempers rose in the dispute with Athens Khalifa Haftar the Benghazi-based military leader in Eastern Libya had sent a flotilla of boats carrying migrants onto the shores of Crete to assert maritime territorial claims in the Eastern Mediterranean...

With a close eye on the oil and gas reserves managed in Tripoli and old ties to rogue General Khalifa Haftar United States President Donald Trump is trying to balance his interests in Libya...

The latest contract was filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act on 23 July – the same day Trump's senior Africa advisor Massad Boulos met Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba in Tripoli before travelling to Benghazi to meet General Khalifa Haftar the following day...

SAF commanders blamed these tensions on the UAE and its support for Libyan National Army commander Gen Khalifa Haftar and his son Saddam Haftar...

Now EU leaders are panicking about a spike in illegal crossings from eastern Libya for which they blame Russia's expanding operations and its alliance with key figures in rogue general Khalifa Haftar's regime in Benghazi eastern Libya...

The east and most of the south is controlled by the Benghazi-based warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar...