The mercenaries remain the backbone of Gen Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) militia even though the number of Russians has dwindled from around 2 500 to just a few hundred centred on the Kharouba air base east of Benghazi...

And the two men and their military forces have worked together in Sudan and in Libya where the RSF supplied at least 1 000 fighters in support of the rogue general and self-styled commander of the Libya National Army Khalifa Haftar...

Eastern Libya's General Khalifa Haftar does business with Hemeti who lent him several hundred fighters in May 2020...

Other reports including the Wall Street Journal cite shipments of materiel from Libya's rebel commander General Khalifa Haftar to Hemeti...

Significantly there has been no pushback from eastern-based militia leader General Khalifa Haftar nor from the speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh who usually never misses an opportunity to criticise Dubaiba...

William Burns director of the United States's Central Intelligence Agency has been trying to convince Egypt to pressure General Khalifa Haftar leader of the Libyan National Army (LNA) militia to disband and send away not only his Wagner operatives but Chadian and Sudanese fighters who make up a substantial part of the LNA...

In the west the Tripoli government controls virtually all the region and has all the oil income; in the east the HoR and the government it appointed in last March to replace Dubaiba's government has been desperately trying to convince everyone that they are in charge although they have no money and Gen Khalifa Haftar remains the real power of the area...

That parliament has worked with the rogue General Khalifa Haftar in his attempts to overthrow the UN-recognised government of national unity in Tripoli...

In the worst violence since Gen Khalifa Haftar's 14-month siege of the capital ended in June 2020 159 militiamen were also wounded as fighters fired their weapons indiscriminately at security and civil targets alike hitting medical facilities homes and shops...