NATO on Saturday expressed its concern about the mercenaries sent by Russian company Wagner to help fight alongside Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar in Libya.

Western mercenaries linked to UAE-based companies were deployed to Libya to back up eastern commander Khalifa Haftar in his assault on the UN-recognised government, a new confidential UN report has revealed.

The United Kingdom and the United States on Tuesday urged Russia to stop sending mercenaries to the conflict in Libya, after a recent United Nations report confirmed the presence of Russian and Syrian fighters in the country.

Details of a dispute between Khalifa Haftar and the Russian private military contractor Wagner Group show financial and military issues unsolved between the two, according to a report by Arabic Post news website.

Libyan government forces destroyed an operations room belonging to a Russian mercenary group south of Tripoli on Tuesday night, a military spokesman 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.

Rogue Libyan general Khalifa Haftar‘s military force is being bolstered by Russian operatives as part of large-scale efforts from foreign powers to aid the militia leader, according to UN experts.

The arrival of the new coronavirus in Libya has not interrupted the battle for Tripoli.

Turkey and Russia are using desperate mercenaries from the last war to fight in the next one.

US defense and US Africa Command (AFRICOM) officials have told the US-based Washington Examiner that Russia inserted a paramilitary group in Libya to support Khalifa Haftar and position itself on the southern flank of NATO, adding that their presence is a graver danger than ISIS in the southern region of …