Sisi is aligned with the United Arab Emirates France and Russia in support of eastern Libyan forces led by General Khalifa Haftar (AC Vol 60 No 8 Whose chair is it anyway...
There are two main approaches to resolving the divide between the internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Faiez el Serraj which is based in Tripoli and controls almost all the west and the rival Libyan National Army led by General Khalifa Haftar which controls the east...
The RSF is also in eastern Libya supporting General Khalifa Haftar backed by the UAE and less actively by Egypt...
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia: The main backers of Burhan and Hemeti because of their supply of fighters into Yemen to combat Iran-backed Houthi forces and into Libya to support General Khalifa Haftar...
The last two points were directed at the fighters and officials supplied by Turkey to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) as well as Russia's Wagner Group which is backing the eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar...
The company flew its Boeing 757 from Washington to Dublin then on to Benghazi on 2 August at the height of US discussions with Libyan National Army commander Khalifa Haftar about a ceasefire with the Tripoli government...
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Dubus proposed that Bourdon take on work commissioned by General Khalifa Haftar head of the forces that control eastern Libya...
Turkey and the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) continue to insist there will be no negotiations unless the eastern-based Libyan National Army of General Khalifa Haftar pull out of both places...
In June Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi said that the Libyan central coastal town of Sirte and the airbase at Jufra further south both held by General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) were red lines warning the Government of National Accord and its Turkish backers that Egypt would intervene if they were attacked...
One of Mercury's other sovereign clients is Turkey the GNA's main military and financial backer in its civil war with General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army...
General Khalifa Haftar may be in retreat on the battlefield after his Libyan National Army was forced away from Tripoli back to its eastern strongholds but the war for the support of foreign governments for both sides of the conflict is growing more intense (AC Vol 61 No 12 Haftar falls back)...
