Khalifa Haftar, the military commander of Libya’s eastern government, has met Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and said he was seeking Moscow’s help in his fight against Islamic militants at home. Haftar, on his second visit to Moscow since the summer, requested military support from the Kremlin in September, according to Russian media. Haftar has received public backing from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, and France sent special forces to work alongside Haftar’s Libyan National Army earlier this year. When asked, the Kremlin did not say whether it might offer Haftar any military support, describing the talks with him as business as usual. “We spoke in general,” Haftar told reporters after the talks with Lavrov.

Source: Libya Today November 29, 2016 21:00 UTC