Thank you for your reading and interest in the news Libyan crisis enters new phase with reports of Turkey deploying Syrian fighters and now with detailsHind Al Soulia - Riyadh - The war in Libya took a dramatic turn on Saturday with reports of Turkey deploying Syrian rebels to support its allies in Tripoli. Videos posted on social media showed Syrian fighters claiming to have already arrived in Libya. Reports emerged of the Mutasem grouping, from the Free Syrian Army, had already arrived in Libya and started fighting on the ground. Rami Abdulrahman, head of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said as many as 500 Turkmen Syrian fighters have already been recruited in Turkey ahead of deployment to Libya. A video claiming to show Syrian fighters in Libya had a fighter saying "The Free Syrian Army is in Libya to defend Islam"Arnaud Delalande, a defence analyst specialising in Libyan affairs called the claims of pro-Turkey Syrian fighters immediately joining the conflict “pure gesture and rhetoric”.

Source: Libya Today December 29, 2019 05:03 UTC