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General Khalifa Belqasim Haftar

Date of Birth: 1943
Place of Birth: Tarhouna


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Exile flies into a trap

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...


Fury greets Gertler report

Dubus proposed that Bourdon take on work commissioned by General Khalifa Haftar head of the forces that control eastern Libya...


Rivals fight for control of Sirte

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...


Red lines in the sand

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...


Lobbying grenades

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)...


Haftar falls back

Fourteen months after launching his 'lightning' offensive to seize the Libyan capital and oust the UN-recognised Government of National Accord eastern-based General Khalifa Haftar now wants a peace deal...


West too wild for Haftar

Although his Libyan National Army (LNA) still controls eastern and southern Libya General Khalifa Haftar has suffered a string of heavy defeats in western Libya leaving his hopes of entering Tripoli in tatters...


No coronavirus ceasefire

The Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) and the interim government in Benghazi backed by General Khalifa Haftar and the city of Misrata are imposing differing restrictions and curfew hours...


A game of many nations

It has upset Greece France and the European Union and not just the backers of Tobruk-based General Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) Egypt Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates...


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