US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's Africa envoy Massad Boulos met in Washington with Saddam Haftar, son of eastern Libya's military ruler Khalifa Haftar. The younger Haftar was recently appointed commander of his father's army and primary successor, according to an Israeli intelligence source.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's special envoy for Africa, Massad Boulos, met in Washington with Saddam Haftar, the son of eastern Libya's military strongman Khalifa Haftar. The meeting, reported by an Israeli intelligence desk on Tuesday morning, underscores continued US engagement with the Libyan commander's camp amid that country's prolonged civil conflict. Saddam Haftar was recently appointed as commander of his father's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) and as the primary successor to the aging general, who has ruled eastern Libya from Benghazi for over a decade. The Haftar faction controls most of eastern and southern Libya and is one of the key power centers in the fractured state, rivaling the UN-recognized Government of National Unity in Tripoli. No details on the content of the Washington discussions were provided. The Zioneer has not yet reported on this meeting; no prior thread is available for continuity on this specific diplomatic contact.
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