Dbeibah still appears to have the support of most of the main armed forces in the capital, but some back Bashagha. When Bashagha tried to enter Tripoli last month, clashes broke out between rival groups, forcing him to quit the city. Waiting in the wings, eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, an ally of the parliament that appointed Bashagha, could take advantage of any conflict between the Tripoli armed groups. Haftar's supporters present him as an antidote to the chaos and lawlessness of rule by rival armed groups in western Libya. However, his own Libyan National Army is also a coalition of different armed factions and a U.N. panel of experts on Libya has reported numerous abuses associated with it.

Source: Libya Today June 22, 2022 15:21 UTC