Haftar’s son, Saddam Haftar, overseeing the operation with other senior officers. Source: the Libyan National Army.
On August 25, the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar, said that it had launched airstrikes against “foreign armed groups” near the border with Chad.
Army spokesperson, Major General, Ahmad Mismari said that the airstrikes were carried out after having earlier announced an operation to secure the frontier.
The LNA would “no longer allow armed groups or factions to use Libyan territory to launch attacks against neighboring countries,” Maj. Gen. Mismari said.
Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby said earlier this week that the army was again fighting the Libya-based Chadian Front for Change and Concord (FACT) group, which quit a ceasefire last week amid clashes.
FACT fought alongside the LNA in Libya’s civil war, according to unverified reports, but they were on opposing sides during fighting two years ago when Deby’s father was killed.
In the course of its operation, the LNA expelled members of the Chadian opposition and their families from an unfinished housing complex in the remote outpost of Umm al-Araneb in the Murzuq district, some 300 kilometers to the north of the border with Chad.
Speaking to the Arab News Agency on August 26, Mismari said that there was no time limit for the ongoing operation along the Chadian border.
Libya has been unstable since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed strongman Moamer Kadhafi in 2011. The country is now split between the Government of National Unity in the capital Tripoli and a rival government based in Benghazi and backed by the House of Representatives and the LNA.
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may god grant victory to the libyan national army over all of libya and against the chadian rebel scumbags.
za tento chaos v líbyi nesú plnú zodpovednosť usa a eu!!! boli to práve oni čo to spôsobili!!!
they have military equipment, why didn’t they take it out when nato attacked them?? easier to make tiktok missile launch videos