Reports that Khalifa’s forces told Malta to block certain flights to Tripoli from Turkey
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Asharq al-Awsat’s Cairo correspondent Khalid Mahmoud reports that Khalifa Haftar’s forces requested that Malta should not be party to the Libyan conflict and block certain flights from Turkey heading to Libya.
The comments were made in relation to reports that Fayez al-Sarraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA) has officially requested Malta’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to permit the passage of three flights coming from Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in Turkey starting Wednesday until June 25.
Flights that according Karama operations media centre of the Libyan National Army (LNA) will most likely carry arms, ammunition and mercenaries, stressing that Malta should stay out of the Libyan conflict reported Asharq al-Awsat, an Arabic international newspaper headquartered in London.
Furthermore, Asharq al-Awsat reports that in these last days the LNA reported that ‘Turkish drones’ had targeted several regions in the south of the capital Tripoli.
Asharq al-Awsat reported that the LNA, through its media centre, accused Turkey of making a “blatant intervention in support of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and its militias despite a UN Security Council arms embargo on Libya.”
LNA officials also reported that this week militias loyal to Fayez al-Sarraj’s attacked Tripoli’s former international airport but they ended up with heavy casualties.
