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Libya’s fragmented military and competition for its controlF

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Posted On 2 October 2024

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While the world is focused on the crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, a power struggle continues to destabilize Libya, with protagonists competing for the control of the armed forces. Three factions are now at the center of an ongoing struggle over the fate of the army. Eastern warlord Khalifa Haftar wants nothing else but full control of the military and security services to his benefit and those of sons. Haftar may be strongest of them all, given that he gets the support of powerful and wealth foreign nations. Facing him is the Tripoli-linked General Abdulrazzak al-Nadhouri, who has been insisting on creating one unified army. A third faction comprised of loyalists of former dictator Muamar Gaddafi, has also emerged to influence the fate of Libya’s armed forces.

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