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Among the bevy of great and middle powers involved in Libya, China is often neglected. It is not pouring in mercenaries or conducting airstrikes, but China is steadily investing and exerting influence in ways that promote Libya’s eventual integration into China’s global ambitions.

Libya’s UN-supported government launched a counterattack on Sunday against a strategic military base used by renegade commander Khalifa Haftar to pound the capital Tripoli with rocket fire.

Turkey has warned that it will reliate against forces loyal to rogue Libyan General Khalifa Haftar if attacks on its interests in the country continue.

Rocket and shell fire on Tripoli has killed at least 13 civilians and two policemen in the last two days, Libya’s UN-recognised government said on Friday.

Jet fuel tanks at Tripoli’s Mitiga airport were targeted in an attack on Saturday that caused a large fire, Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) said.

The United States accused Russia of worsening the situation in Libya by sending Syrian mercenaries and military equipment to support Khalifa Haftar’s offensive against the internationally recognised government.

Factions of the Turkish-backed opposition Syrian National Army are recruiting minors to fight in Libya, according to a report laying out in exhaustive detail Turkey’s use of Syrian rebels to prop up Libya’s Government of National Accord.

At least 14 civilians were killed by militias loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar in Libya since the beginning of May, said the Libyan Army on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports.

At least three people, including a civilian, were killed after rocket attacks by forces loyal to Libyan renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar hit the capital Tripoli and a nearby area, the government said early on Friday.

The member of the Presidential Council Ahmed Mitig said Italy doesn’t know what it wants in Libya due to its lack of political strategy, which is making it lose Libya as a partner in the Mediterranean, which is difficult to win back in the future.