Libya's UN-backed government asks Turkey for military support against rival leader, reports say
Libya's U.N.-backed government has officially approved Turkish intervention against a powerful military leader attempting to take the capital reportedly with the help of foreign forces.
The move could prove a major turn in the ongoing conflict in the North African nation. Haftar, who returned from exile in the United States to play a role inand then again to assert his role in the country, has also received degrees of Arab backing from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and from Russian private military fighters, as well.
Moscow officials have met with Haftar, but deny any direct military support and have engaged with the GNA as well, calling for stability in a country in which they were eager to renew lucrative Qaddafi-era arms deals. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told a press briefing Wednesday that reports of U.S. lawmakers drawing up a bill seeking to target Russia with sanctions over its alleged role in Libya"aggressive, groundless and illogical.
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