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'Message for friends and foes': Libyan National Army conducts grand exercises

The two-week exercise features over 25,000 troops, tank formations and Pantsir air-defense systems as Haftar seeks to project control across Libya.

Summary by Al-Monitor
The Libyan National Army (LNA), commanded by Marshall Khalifa Haftar and controlling southern and eastern Libya, is conducting what officers describe as its biggest military exercise yet -- and a message for both friends and foes.At the entrance of a sprawling military encampment some 100 kilometres away from Derna, a towering portrait of Haftar overlooked the scene.The sand whipped across a barren landscape as armoured vehicles sped along.

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