General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar

retainer from Libya's General Khalifa Haftar (AC Vol 58 No 9 Finding Africa on K Street)...

They have a minimal presence in Darfur and are operating mostly in South Sudan and Libya as mercenaries with General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army and other forces...

General Khalifa Haftar's forces control the east but have not marched on Tripoli and show little sign of doing so (AC Vol 58 No 6 Squaring the triangle)...

A leaked United Nations Libya Experts Panel interim report – which the UN has since sought to disown after the panel's Coordinator expressed his 'extreme concern' at the security implications – said military campaigns launched in mid-2014 against Da'ish (Islamic State) by the Misurata and other militias (Operation Dawn) and Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (Operation Dignity) had 'dramatically accelerated the depletion of Libya's wealth'...

This partly explains his contentious cultivation of eastern Libyan strongman General Khalifa Haftar...

In Libya meanwhile Russia's political support for Tobruk-based General Khalifa Haftar who controls the country's oil-rich east balances the West's support for Prime Minister Faiez el Serraj's Government of National Accord (AC Vol 58 No 6 Squaring the triangle)...

Da'ish fighters are a potent force in Libya in areas such as the Islamist fief of Dirna and in Egypt's Western Desert despite a wave of attacks from General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army and President Abdul Fattah el Sisi's air force (AC Vol 58 No 12 States of failure)...

The most serious attack has come from General Khalifa Haftar who heads the Tobruk-based Libyan National Army which with backing from Egypt and United Arab Emirates is now the most powerful and coherent military force in the country...

Fighting between General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) and its rivals has been increasing while Da'ish (Islamic State) proves that it remains a potent force despite suffering heavy military defeats...

International support for General Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army (LNA) based in the east is growing beyond his core base of external supporters of Egypt Russia and the United Arab Emirates...