Major General Khalifa Haftar was a leading figure in the 2011 ... situation in the capital when contacted by CBS News on Friday. Libya, since the fall of Qaddafi, is chaotic, with its fragile ...

(Reuters) -Here is a timeline chronicling Libya's years of chaos and division: 2011 - Revolt and civil war An uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule rapidly spreads, becoming an armed ...

Haftar returned to Libya in 2011, after nearly 20 years living in the US, to join rebel forces in toppling Muammar Gaddafi, under who he served as an army general ... was seized control of by ...

General Khalifa Hifter’s campaign to curb Islamist fighters, whom he says Libya’s ... the claim by Haftar aides that 80 percent of the city is now under their control.

Opposing the GNA is General Khalifa Haftar and ... than a unitary national force. In Libya’s east, where Haftar’s power is most entrenched, he has struggled to control armed groups nominally under LNA ...

Haftar's, in eastern Libya, is often at odds with the Western-backed government based in Tripoli. Also in the mix are multiple tribes competing for control ... Hours after General Haftar's ...

Three days later, the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) declares Libya's "total liberation". In August 2012 it hands power to the transitional General National ... two northeastern oil sites ...

From its powerbase in eastern Libya, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) has gradually extended the territory under its control and the firepower at its disposal ...

Recently, Italian authorities intercepted a cargo ship suspected of bringing Russian weapons to General Khalifa Haftar in eastern Libya ... in territories under Haftar's control, the undermining ...

General Khalifa Haftar's forces took control ... oil-rich area seen as key to the country's economy, Colonel Ahmad Mesmari said. Haftar, one of the most powerful military figures in Libya, has ...

Days before Libya’s renegade General Khalifa Haftar launched ... when rockets and shells fired by forces loyal to Haftar hit a residential area. Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed, reporting ...

The new government wants more involvement in Libya for two reasons 1) being in this specific area ... control over to further their interests. France is definitively backing the LNA’s General ...