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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]
30 Mar 2020, 6:20 am by Daniel Byman, Israa Saber
The West’s open willingness to work with unsavory actors for the sake of counterterrorism has taught warlords, like Libya’s Khalifa Haftar, to present themslves as important in the fight against terrorism in order to gain foreign support. [read post]
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]
4 May 2017, 10:41 am by Rachel Bercovitz
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar of the government based in the city of Tobruk and Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of the U.N. [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]
17 Sep 2020, 5:14 am by Ali Wyne, Colin P. Clarke
Recent news that China and Iran are close to finalizing an economic and security partnership, initially proposed by Beijing in January 2016, has renewed anxieties among some U.S. observers that Washington is gradually ceding the Middle East to its principal strategic competitor. [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]
4 Apr 2017, 12:01 pm by Jordan Brunner
The move comes at a time when Russia seeks to expand its own role in Libya’s future with its backing of the Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar. [read post]
9 Jun 2019, 7:00 am by Jason M. Blazakis
Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army have contributed to destabilization and civil war. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 5:01 am by Agneska Bloch, Israa Saber
On Jan. 25, Turkey and Greece will begin exploratory talks in an effort to resolve the issues at the root of their often hostile relations. [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]
7 Dec 2023, 5:55 am by Mutasim Ali
The warlord Khalifa Haftar, who now controls Eastern Libya, is also complicit. [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]
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]
14 Mar 2017, 10:16 am by Jordan Brunner
The Wall Street Journal tells us that President Donald Trump has rolled back another Obama-era national security policy by granting the CIA increased authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists. [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]
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]
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]
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]