When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the Uwaynat Triangle, a strategically important border crossing between Sudan, Egypt, and Libya, it upset a complex network of alliances among the ...

A Sudanese airstrike destroyed a suspected UAE aircraft yesterday, marking a potential tipping point for the increasingly ...

After an EU delegation was humiliated by the commander in control of large swaths of eastern Libya, Euronews explores Haftar’s fall, then rise to power and who is helping him maintain it. View on euro ...

Khalifa Haftar’s onslaught on the Libya’s capital was openly supported by the UAE, but evidence has emerged that his forces received weapons and training from Israel. This is a rush transcript ...

Libyan National Army Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar (left), who heads the rival government that operates from the eastern Libyan city of Bayda, is photographed in Benghazi, Libya, on May 7, 2018.

Who is Khalifa Haftar? Described by CNN as the “ultimate pragmatist,” the 75-year-old was an officer in the coup that brought Gaddafi to power in 1969 but fell out with the dictator in the ...

CAIRO — Libya’s powerful military commander, Khalifa Haftar, announced Tuesday his bid to run in the country’s presidential election next month, submitting his candidacy papers as the long ...

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar (C) attends a military parade in the eastern city of Benghazi on May 7, 2018, during which he announced a military offensive to take from 'terrorists' the city of ...

Major General Ahmad al-Mesmari, spokesman for Haftar’s forces, said in a televised statement that the LNA was already in control of Gharyan, a town about 100 km (60 miles) south of the capital.

As soon as the bombs started falling, General Khalifa Haftar departed for Benghazi (in Libya’s east) from his home in Virginia, just a 10-minute drive from CIA headquarters.

A retired general, Khalifa Haftar, leading a diverse coalition of eastern tribes, former army officers and secular-leaning politicians, launched an attack against Islamist militias in Benghazi.