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...

The Tripoli prime minister is said to have done a deal with the United Arab Emirates one of the main suppliers and financiers of Libyan National Army (LNA) militia leader Gen Khalifa Haftar putting Bengdara in charge of the NOC in the hope of weaning the general away from the eastern-based prime minister Fathi Bashagha...

He has been temporarily replaced by the local government minister Badradeen al Tumi but in the present twists and turns Dubaiba may opt for a Khalifa Haftar supporter as his full-time replacement...

Many fear he is escalating conflict by recruiting his Arab Rizeigat kinsmen into the RSF and acquiring sophisticated military hardware from Libya through the offices of Gen Khalifa Haftar...