The origins of this showdown date back most immediately to June 2014, when Libya held its second national election since the U.S.-backed NATO intervention that ousted Libya's strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The international community recognized the House of Representatives until its term expired. These fears have been borne out in several cases, as when a Tunisian trained in Western Libya attacked foreign tourists at a Tunisian beach in 2015, killing 38. A dual Libyan-British citizen also trained in Western Libya (and evacuated by the British navy from Libya in 2014) blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, UK May, 2017, killing 22 people. So until and unless the international community is willing to step in and fix these problems themselves -- which is supremely unlikely -- it should keep out of the current conflict.

Source: Forbes April 07, 2019 10:30 UTC