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Playing Pick-Up-Sticks in Libya—3

... and the House of Representatives also coexist, positioning themselves as legislative bodies representing all territories and population groups. Legislatures east of the Sirte-Jufrah dividing line rely on the military might of the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by self-proclaimed Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, while to the west, the real power on the ground is often held by various armed groups and militias. Ruslan Mamedov, Grigory Lukyanov: Playing Pick-Up-Sticks in Libya In 2020, thanks to the mediation ...

04.07.2024

Russia’s Game on the Libyan Field: From Gaddafi to Haftar

... many hotbeds of terrorist activity in the country led, for instance, by Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia as a terrorist organization), Islamic State (IS, banned in Russia as a terrorist organization) and other groups fighting against both Libya Dawn and the LNA. Libya’s Nasser or Libya’s Sadat? The Kremlin was particularly sympathetic towards the LNA and its commander. They were secular Arab forces led by military people who had been educated in the Soviet Frunze Military Academy. Moscow could understand ...

12.08.2020

Playing Pick-Up-Sticks in Libya — 2

Is Turkey’s Matrak Worth Playing? In the spring of 2020, the forces of Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) succeeded in pushing Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) [ 1 ] back from the country’s capital, seizing control of Tarhuna and Bani Walid and laying siege to Sirte on the coast. As part of Operation Volcano of Anger, the capital city’s metropolitan area was now controlled by the forces of General Osama ...

02.07.2020

The War in Libya: Is the Defeat of Khalifa Haftar Complete

... in parallel, one of them is the Government of National Accord (GNA), based in Tripoli and led by Faiz Saraj. In the east, in the Tobruk, there is the Libyan House of Representatives, controlled by the commander in chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar. Since April 2019, the troops of H. Haftar besieged the Libyan capital. In November 2019, the Republic of Turkey and the government of F. Saraj signed a memorandum of understanding, which included the intensification of political and ...

18.06.2020

March to Tripoli, or a Third Civil War in Libya: Initial Results

Libya is Turning into a Battlefield and a Faultline between Two Antagonistic Camps of the Islamic World The military offensive of the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshal (according to the House of Representatives sitting in Tobruk) Khalifa Haftar on Tripoli that began on April 4, 2019 had finally petered out by mid-May, having achieved none of its goals. On the eve of the offensive, the military ...

13.06.2019

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