'Message for friends and foes': Libyan National Army conducts grand exercises

“The Libyan National Army (LNA), commanded by Marshall Khalifa Haftar and controlling southern and eastern Libya, is conducting what officers describe as its biggest military exercise yet -- and a message for both friends and foes. At the entrance of a sprawling military encampment some 100 kilometres away from Derna, a towering portrait of Haftar overlooked the scene. The sand whipped across a barren landscape as armoured vehicles sped along.

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