Kremlin: Any threat to NLA would be regarded as a threat To Russia
Kremlin reported Saturday that “Any threat to NLA would be
regarded as a threat to Russia.
Russia is generally regarded as an unconditional Haftar ally.
Still wracked by conflict six years after the fall of
Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is split between two rival governments. In the west is
Fayez al-Sarraj’s Government of National Accord, based in Tripoli, and in the
east a regional government under the control of General Khalifa Haftar, based
in Tobruk.
Libya’s political map is marked by large areas beyond
government control – some are under the sway of local armed groups, while
others are partially filled by violent radical Islamist groups. The so-called
Islamic State (IS) maintains cells in the coastal town of Sabratha, and
controls swaths of territory south-east of Tripoli.
