The warlord trying to take over Tripoli has deep roots in Libya

The World

General Khalifa Haftar helped put Muammar Gaddafi in power in 1969 and then helped overthrow him in 2011. Marco Werman gets background on Haftar from Jalel Harchaoui, a research fellow at the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands.

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