LIBYA RECOVERS TWO KEY OIL EXPORT TERMINALS.

 Libya’s strongman Khalifa Haftar recovers two major oil ports from rebels.

Libya has recovered two oil export terminals among by the ones attacked last week by rebel forces. The troop was led by Khalifa Haftar. They reclaimed both Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra terminals. It took them one week to fight away rebels in both terminals.

The Petroleum Facilities Guard, led by Ibrahim Jadhran, had controlled the terminals and blocked exports for years. He controlled the terminal since 2011 ouster and killing of longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Hence, in 2016 he was forced out by Haftar’s LNA.

Last week, Jadhran, whose Al-Magharba tribe hails from the region had formed an alliance to retake the terminals.

The LNA, which internationally government opposes is based in Tripoli, responded with “a major offensive” by ground and air forces to oust “the militias of Jadhran and his allies”.

Sources close to the LNA have reported that Jadhran joined forces with the Benghazi Defence Brigades, made up of Islamist fighters ousted from the eastern city by the LNA.

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