The St Valentine’s Day Charade: Khalifa Haftar, the cause of and main actor in, Libya’s second civil
In April this year, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar declared that he would ‘push the (Libyan government) out of Tripoli’. Since then, he has killed 1,000 people and injured at least 5,000, as well as twice attacking refugee camps, the second time at Tajoura on 2 July, killing 53 people who live there. Today (16 July), the Libyan government publicly demanded to know why Haftar’s troops are carrying French weapons. This piece is a guide to Libya’s second civil war, which is now i