Haftar’s forces now are battling to take Tripoli, fighting militias allied to a UN-supported government based in the Libyan capital. Another Egyptian militant, wanted for attacks in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, was also sent back, according to Egypt’s state-run MENA news agency. Egyptian officials say El-Ashmawi subsequently traveled to Syria, the Gaza Strip and Libya to join various militant groups. In Libya, El-Ashmawi set up the militant Al-Mourabitoun group blamed by Egypt for several attacks in the Western Desert, near the Libyan border. Egyptian authorities believe El-Ashmawi also was behind a 2013 attempted assassination in Cairo of Egypt’s then-Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim.

Source: Libya Today May 28, 2019 17:51 UTC