The International Criminal Court (ICC), based at the Hague in the Netherlands, has issued an arrest warrant for a senior Libyan military commander allied with the controversial military chief of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), renegade Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for a senior Libyan military commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. (File picture: Reuters)The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for a senior Libyan military commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. "The Libyan authorities must urgently comply with this arrest warrant and hand Warfalli over to the ICC to face his accusers in a fair trial," she said. Warfalli, who was born in 1978, is a senior commander in the Special Forces Brigade, or Al Saiqa, which defected from the Libyan military after the 2011 uprising against Gaddafi.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 16, 2017 11:26 UTC