EU states and the US have urged a Russia-backed Libyan warlord to hand back oil ports, amid warnings that Russia was trying to do in Libya what it did in Syria. The EU is also working with the GNA to stop migrants after 181,000 people came via Libya to claim asylum in Europe last year. Haftar, whose so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) controls eastern Libya, has received funding, military training, and diplomatic support from Russia. He met Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow in November. She said her work with Turkey on Syria was “constructive” despite the dispute over Turkish rallies in the EU.

Source: Libya Today March 15, 2017 08:30 UTC