Eastern-based Libyan forces led by Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive in April...
LONDON/CAIRO - Eastern-based Libyan forces led by Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive in April on the capital Tripoli in the west that has plunged the oil-producing nation into a new bout of conflict.
As a major oil supplier to Europe and starting point for migrant flows to Italy, much is at stake if the country slips further into turmoil.Libya began fracturing in 2011 when groups took up arms to topple leader Muammar Gaddafi during the Arab Spring uprisings, but the groups also started fighting each other due to political, ideological and geographical rivalries., keeping control over its tribes and clans, and quelling Islamist militants.
Factions have used oil facilities as bargaining chips to press financial and political demands. Fields and ports in Libya’s east were blocked between 2013 and 2016. Most of Libya’s oil infrastructure is in the east where competition for control has raged between military factions.
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