Could egypt and turkey go to war in libya egypts president threatens to send in the army turkish back troops make more gains how does that further complicate libyas civil war this is inside story. Welcome to the program. The battle lines of libyas civil war are changing quickly a few weeks ago after us forces were on the outskirts of the capital tripoli they fought a 14 month battle to remove the u. N. Recognize government of National Accord or the jna but the warlords campaign failed and hes been in retreat sense jane i troops turn the tide over the past month reinforced by military support from turkey they pushed have to fight is out of tripoli suburbs and several coastal towns in western libya and now theyre heading towards have to his power base in the oil rich south and east the deny forces are closing in on the city of sirte and base both an a. O. L. Fields that have to shut down earlier this year cutting off billions of dollars of income after all foreign backers russia the Unit
Could egypt and turkey go to war in libya egypts president threatens to send in the army its Turkish Backed troops make more gains how does that further complicate libyas civil war this isnt a story. Welcome to the program on imran khan the battle lines of libyas civil war are changing quickly a few weeks ago Khalifa Haftar his forces were on the outskirts of the capital tripoli they fought a 14 month battle to remove the u. N. Recognize government of National Accord or the jna but the warlords campaign failed and hes been in retreat sense jane a troops turn the tide over the past month reinforced by military support from turkey they pushed after his fighters out of tripoli suburbs and several coastal towns in western libya and now theyre heading towards have to his power base in the oil rich south and east the jna forces are closing in on the city of sirte and joe for air base both an a. O. L. Fields that have to shut down earlier this year cutting off billions of dollars of income af
Could egypt and turkey go to war in libya egypts president threatens to send in the army turkish back troops make more gains how does that further complicate libyas civil war this is inside story. Welcome to the program. The battle lines of libyas civil war are changing quickly a few weeks ago after us forces were on the outskirts of the capital tripoli they fought a 14 month battle to remove the un recognized government of National Accord well the jna but the warlords campaign failed and hes been in retreat sense jane a troops turn the tide over the past month reinforced by military support from turkey they pushed have to fight his out of tripoli suburbs and several coastal towns in western libya and now theyre heading towards have to his power base in the oil rich south and east they deny forces are closing in on the city of sirte and base both fields that have to shut down earlier this year cutting off billions of dollars of income have to his foreign backers russia the United Arab
Coronavirus and says its working to produce a vaccine for the world and. Not enough to go along with the gulf but this is a start. In washington across the u. S. And in cities around the world demonstrators are denouncing racism meant to be silence after the killing of george floyd. Libyas un recognized government is pressing on with the offensive to reclaim territory from war holy father after with its forces entering the stronghold city of sirte the governments rejected a cease fire plan put forward by hostile and his egyptian allies i want other we had reports from tripoli. Proposing a peace deal in cairo egypts president abdel fatah has sisi with libyas warlord honey for have to. Whos 14 months or fence if to capture the libyan capital collapsing this week announcing it is time for a ceasefire and old foreign fighters to leave come out ahead if it were barbara. The Initiative Aims to guarantee a ferry presentation of libyas 3 provinces and a president ial council elected by the peo
Located in the Central Coast of libya and its very close to the oil ports and ruslan new so so its a very strategically placed. Its its extremely important now this comes after forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar have suffered major defeats and lost several key towns in western libya including the stronghold who know this battle here in central libya is much different than the ones then the battle in tripoli tripoli was very condensed it was urban the fighting was street to street house to house so its very different here the terrain is very wide and open and this makes this makes it very important for the airpower air power is extremely important in the battle here for sirte now yesterday airstrikes were were carried out by forces or carried out by the after selfstyled Libyan National army forces here adamant about control in sirte this will create a better position in power in any future peace talks also like i said it is close to russell knew of the major oil ports in libya s