Khalifa Hifter

Children play pool in Omdurman, Sudan, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Libya fueled war in Sudan with Colombian mercenaries and equipment, UN report finds

United Nations experts have found that paramilitaries fighting against the Sudanese military received support from an armed group in Libya, adding more chaos to the devastating war in Sudan.

FILE.- Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, centre, the deputy head of the military council, greets the crowd during a military-backed tribe's rally, in the Nile River State, Sudan, Saturday, July 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Hjaj,File)

Sudan war takes a turn as paramilitary force captures Darfur, threatening to split the country

This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

Libya deports 700 Sudanese migrants in crackdown on trafficking

European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner speaks during a media conference after a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Dec 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Havana, File)

EU migration delegation ordered deported from eastern Libya on alleged entry violations

In this June 22, 2019 file photo, a Sudanese soldier from the Rapid Support Forces or RSF, stands on his vehicle during a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Sudan’s paramilitaries seize a key area along with the border with Libya and Egypt

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Migrants gather in an area near the Libyan-Tunisia border, as Libyan security forces and Libyan Red Cross workers distribute food aid to them on Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, file)

Reports of Trump deportation plans highlight abuse of migrants in Libya

The Bluebonnet Detention Center on Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Anson, Texas (AP Photo/Eli Hartman)

Some migrants were told they’d be sent to Libya, attorneys say as they try to block the deportations

View of the ICC, the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Libya warlord arrested in Italy on warrant from the International Criminal Court, but then expelled

Effigies of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hang from traffic lights as Egyptian anti-government protesters gathered in Tahrir (Liberation) Square, to watch U.S. President Barack Obama, not seen, live on a TV broadcast from Washington, speaking about the situation in Egypt, early Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

What will Syria’s future look like? The answer could lie in other Arab countries’ recent pasts

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands as they pose for photos during a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on July 3, 2024. (Sergey Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Turkey and Russia engage in delicate maneuvers over Syria after Assad’s downfall

This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

UN announces initiative to overcome political deadlock in Libya

This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)

Gunmen clash in a Libyan city and fires erupt at a nearby oil refinery

FILE - Libya's Khalifa Hifter, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, is seen at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. A U.S. judge tossed out a series of civil lawsuits, Friday, April 12, 2024, against Hifter, who used to live in Virginia and was accused of killing innocent civilians in that country's civil war. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

US judge tosses out lawsuits against Libyan commander accused of war crimes

UN experts urge forces of powerful Libyan commander to stop evicting residents, demolishing homes

Libyan governing body’s vote to replace its head adds uncertainty to the country’s split politics

FILE - Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter joins a meeting with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens, Greece, Jan. 17, 2020. The Libyan military commander who once lived in Virginia sat for a deposition Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, in a U.S. lawsuit in which he is accused of orchestrating indiscriminate attacks on civilians and torturing and killing political opponents, according to an advocacy group that supports the lawsuit. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Libyan commander Hifter deposed in US civil lawsuit

US judge rules against Libya’s Hifter in war crimes suits

FILE - Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation Mustafa Sanallah holds gives a press conference at the corporation's headquarters in Tripoli, Libya, July 11, 2022. Libya's National Oil Corporation said it resumed oil exports, ending a monthslong hiatus. It said a Malta-flagged tanker, Matala, docked Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the al-Sidra terminal to ship one million barrels of crude oil. The resumption of oil export has come after one of the country’s rival governments fired Sanallah the chairman of the state-run oil corporation (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)

Libya says oil exports resumed after monthslong hiatus

UN urges Libya’s rivals to agree on elections this week

FILE - Mourners pray for fighters killed in airstrikes by warplanes of Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter's forces, in Tripoli, Libya, April 24, 2019, as officials in Libya's U.N.-backed administration said they plan to present evidence to Moscow of Russian mercenaries from the Russian private security contractor Wagner Group fighting alongside their adversary, the forces of Hifter, in their country's war. Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, called for the International Criminal Court to investigate allegations of the use of landmines in 2019 by Russian paramilitaries fighting in Libya. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

Group urges ICC to probe alleged use of mines in Libya war

FILE - Protesters wear yellow vests at a protest as they wave national flags and chant slogans against Libya's Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, in Tripoli, Libya on April 19, 2019. Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which has violated international law, U.N. experts said in a report obtained Friday, May 27, 2022 by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

UN experts: Libya’s security threatened by foreign fighters

FILE - Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter, whose forces, the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces, now control Libya's east and much of the south, including vital oil fields and terminals, meets with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Athens, Jan. 17, 2020. Hifter, who lived for decades in northern Virginia, failed to show up for a deposition Monday, May 9, 2022, in a federal lawsuit in which he is accused of war crimes. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Hifter a no-show for deposition accusing him of war crimes

FILE - The then head of Sudan's sovereign council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, seated center-left, President of South Sudan Salva Kiir, seated center, and then President of Chad Idriss Deby, seated center-right, attend a ceremony to sign a peace deal between Sudan's transitional authorities and a rebel alliance, in Juba, South Sudan, on Oct. 3, 2020. In a report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, its experts say rebel groups in Darfur that signed a peace agreement with the Sudanese government in 2020 continue to operate in Libya and profit from opportunities provided by the civil war and lack of government control in the oil-rich north African nation. (AP Photo/Maura Ajak, File)

UN experts: Darfur rebel groups make money in Libya

Judge leaves lawsuits against Libyan general Hifter on pause

Germany arrests suspected Libyan extremist

FILE - Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter joins a meeting with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens, Greece, Jan. 17, 2020. Libya’s powerful commander, Khalifa Hifter, filed Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, as a candidate in the country’s presidential elections next month, as the long-waited vote faces growing uncertainty. Hifter submitted his candidacy papers in the eastern city of Benghazi and announced the move in a video. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Divisive Libyan commander announces candidacy for president

Judge sets deadline for Libyan commander to answer questions

FILE - This Jan. 17, 2020, file photo is Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter during a meeting in Athens. Egypt’s president met Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, with Libya’s parliament speaker and a powerful military commander as Cairo pushes for the withdrawal of foreign forces and mercenaries and the holding of elections as scheduled in December. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi received Speaker Aguila Saleh and Gen. Khalifa Hifter, commander of the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces, in Cairo, the Egyptian leader’s office said in a statement. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Key Libya commander suspends duties ahead of December vote

East Libya forces say 2 helicopters crashed, killing 2

Libyan commander, Chadian rebels clash in southern Libya

FILE - This Jan. 17, 2020, file photo is Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter during a meeting in Athens. Egypt’s president met Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, with Libya’s parliament speaker and a powerful military commander as Cairo pushes for the withdrawal of foreign forces and mercenaries and the holding of elections as scheduled in December. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi received Speaker Aguila Saleh and Gen. Khalifa Hifter, commander of the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces, in Cairo, the Egyptian leader’s office said in a statement. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Egypt’s leader meets with Libyan officials to push for vote

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks during a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Ramstein Air Base in south-western Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

German FM arrives in Libya to reopen country’s embassy

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2020 file photo, Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter joins a meeting with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens. Richard Norland, the U.S. ambassador to Libya met Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in the Egyptian capital Cairo, with Hifter, the commander of the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces, amid international efforts to salvage a U.N.-brokered roadmap for elections in the North African country late this year. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

US envoy meets Libyan commander to push for elections

FILE - This Jan. 17, 2020 file photo shows Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter during a meeting in Athens. The top Libyan military commander whose forces control the country's eastern regions on Friday, July 30, 2021, endorsed the reopening of the coastal highway along the Mediterranean Sea linking Libya's long-divided east and west. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Key Libya commander backs reopening of Mediterranean highway

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2020 file photo, Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter joins a meeting with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens. A U.S. judge has ruled, Thursday, July 1, 2021, that the Libyan military commander who previously lived in Virginia cannot claim head-of-state immunity as a defense in lawsuits accusing him of atrocities in his country’s civil war. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Judge: Libya’s Hifter cannot claim immunity from civil suits

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