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22 Feb 2024, 4:48 am by Beatrice Yahia
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7 Dec 2023, 5:55 am by Mutasim Ali
The warlord Khalifa Haftar, who now controls Eastern Libya, is also complicit. [read post]
29 Sep 2023, 2:49 am by Seán Binder
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks in Moscow with General Khalifa Haftar, the military leader of eastern Libya. [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 2:15 am by Seán Binder
  OTHER RUSSIA-UKRAINE DEVELOPMENTS Senior Russian officials have been meeting with Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar in a bid to secure naval access to a port in the Mediterranean. [read post]
They’ve supported General Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Libya,  guarded diamond mines in the Central African Republic (CAR), and propped up the CAR’s weak president, Faustin-Archange Touadéra. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 5:54 am by Ernst Jan Hogendoorn
The RSF’s role in Darfur’s violence, its killing of protesters in Khartoum, its open alliance with Russia’s Wagner Group and Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar (among others), and its violent monopolization of gold smuggling out of Sudan made its leadership a prime candidate for Global Magnitsky or other types of targeted sanctions. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 3:14 am by Seán Binder
 Khalifa Haftar, the commander of a faction that controls eastern Libya, dispatched at least one plane to fly military supplies to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 6:00 am by Liz Hume
The Biden administration recently took another step in the years-long adoption and implementation of Congress’s potentially game-changing Global Fragility Act (GFA), sending to Capitol Hill the required 10-year plans for the selected four priority countries — Mozambique, Papua New Guinea, Haiti, Libya — and one region, Coastal West Africa, which takes in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo. [read post]
Amnesty International Monday accused armed group Tariq Ben Zeyad (TBZ) of committing war crimes and other human rights abuses to enforce the reign of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) and its leader Khalifa Haftar. [read post]
23 Oct 2022, 7:01 am by Christopher Faulkner, Marcel Plichta
Khalifa Haftar’s partisans in Libya, along with ongoing campaigns to bolster Russia-friendly governments in the Central African Republic and Mali. [read post]
1 May 2022, 7:01 am by Jalel Harchaoui, John Lechner
In 2014, months after it seized Crimea, Moscow began to slowly and surreptitiously render itself indispensable to a major Libyan faction, the armed coalition led by eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar and his sons. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 8:37 am by Sara Kaufman
  Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, was originally disqualified from the race for his prior conviction of war crimes committed during the civil war.[12]  Like Gaddafi, Haftar appealed his disqualification and was permitted by the Tripolis Appeal Court to run as a presidential candidate in the election.[13]  Abdul Hamid al-Debeibah, leader of the interim government, also added his name to the list of candidates despite his pledge to not… [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 8:37 am by Sara Kaufman
  Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army, was originally disqualified from the race for his prior conviction of war crimes committed during the civil war.[12]  Like Gaddafi, Haftar appealed his disqualification and was permitted by the Tripolis Appeal Court to run as a presidential candidate in the election.[13]  Abdul Hamid al-Debeibah, leader of the interim government, also added his name to the list of candidates despite his pledge to not… [read post]
15 Jun 2021, 3:51 pm by Tom Smith
The incident took place in March 2020, when soldiers with the Government of National Accord (GNA) were battling troops supporting the Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar (called Haftar Affiliated Forces, or HAF, in the report). [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 10:53 am by Zarko Perovic
Beginning in 2020, Wagner employees appear to have been supporting Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Libya with alleged financing from the United Arab Emirates. [read post]
23 Mar 2021, 10:53 am by Zarko Perovic
Beginning in 2020, Wagner employees appear to have been supporting Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Libya with alleged financing from the United Arab Emirates. [read post]
In contrast, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt supported the rival eastern administration backed by renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar. [read post]
28 Feb 2021, 7:01 am by Raphael S. Cohen
The UAE has been engaged in a similarly bloody, long-running proxy conflict backing Libyan National Army strongman Khalifa Haftar against pro-Islamist factions in the Libyan civil war. [read post]
5 Feb 2021, 8:56 am by Alexei Abrahams, Joey Shea
In June 2020, forces aligned with Libyan General Khalifa Haftar suffered further losses in Libya’s long civil war. [read post]