Haftar and Turkey trade threats as Russian jets arrive
Haftar had called for a pause in fighting after this week’s heavy losses
Tripoli — Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar raised the prospect of a dangerous new escalation in the North African country’s war with a threat to target Turkish forces backing the internationally recognised government, prompting Ankara to warn it would retaliate.
The chief of Haftar’s air force, Saqr Al-Jaroushi, vowed to unleash the “largest aerial campaign in Libyan history” with all Turkish positions now “legitimate targets for our air force.” The comments, first made in a statement he later confirmed to Bloomberg, came as the head of security in the Tripoli administration said officials received information that several Soviet-era jets had arrived in Haftar’s eastern stronghold from a Russian base in Syria...
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