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7 Jul 2016, 11:33 am by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
A car bomb in Benghazi killed 12 Libyan troops under the authority of General Khalifa Haftar, a commander of forces in the country’s eastern government who has waging a campaign against the Islamic State. [read post]
23 May 2016, 1:14 pm by Alex R. McQuade
 General Khalifa Haftar, who heads the Libyan forces in the east, “said it would be ‘unthinkable’ for eastern Libyan forces to join up with the U.N. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 10:19 am by Benjamin Bissell
An armed group led by General Khalifa Haftar claimed responsibility for the strikes. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 11:04 am by Benjamin Bissell
” Libya’s “beleaguered” House of Representatives, the elected parliament currently exiled in the eastern city of Tobruk, has formally aligned itself with General Khalifa Haftar, Reuters reports. [read post]
24 Jul 2014, 10:40 am by Cody Poplin
Michael Pizzi, writing in Al Jazeera, details the story of a rogue and controversial Libyan ex-general, Khalifa Haftar, who has mounted an offensive to defeat extremists militias in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 7:34 am by Clara Spera
Al Jazeera explains that tensions between forces loyal to the former General Khalifa Haftar and militants came to an inevitable collision, leaving at least four people dead and fourteen wounded. [read post]
19 May 2014, 9:56 am by Ritika Singh
Former colonel Khalifa Haftar has been a strident critic of Libya’s current government and his attempt at a power grab could put the country on the brink of civil war. [read post]