An Al Jazeera Arabic investigation has uncovered Egyptian, Russian and UAE arms support to Libya‘s renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar.

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Libya‘s coastguard is on alert as the battle for control of Tripoli threatens to spread to the sea.

The armed forces have been a central political player and the real locus of power in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan for the past 60 years.

Libya’s rival forces are intensifying their fight for control of Tripoli. Troops loyal to the UN-backed government in the capital are trying to stop the advance of the strongman Khalifa Haftar, who began his offensive on the city two weeks ago.

As the fighting between the forces loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar and the UN-backed government’s army intensifies, human traffickers continue to profit from boatloads of African migrants hoping to reach Europe.

There have been rare signs of cooperation between Libya’s rival governments after years of conflict and division.

Trapped in Libya Journalist Sally Hayden has for almost three weeks been tweeting a remarkable thread  of her WhatsApp conversations with refugees detained in terrible conditions in Libya. She has included supplemental reporting and audio and video clips from the refugees, and confirmed their stories with sources on the ground.

Sixteen fighters have been killed and 11 others wounded in the eastern Libyan city of Derna. Fighting has intensified between forces loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar and local militias.

In 2011, a wave of uprisings swept across the Arab world, with pro-democracy protests spreading from Tunisia to Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain and beyond.