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Fighting rages as Libya force pushes toward key western city

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By SAMY MAGDY

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Global oil corporations paying both their own government's militaries as well as private militias in the ongoing fight for greater control of oil and gas.

After NATO forces helped overthrow the Libyan government - for the benefit of their nation's respective oil and gas corporations.

None of the oil corporations nor the foreign nations currently there care one anything for the Libyan citizens.

No more wars for oil and gas. Conservation is the start.

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This is starting to look like the beginning of the end for the Tripoli government, which might explain why Erdogan has become so outright in his speech and actions recently. He desperately needs to legitimize an undersea territorial link-up between Libya and Turkey.

Misrata is halfway between Tripoli and Sirte, mentioned as already having been taken by Hifter in the article.

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This is starting to look like the beginning of the end for the Tripoli government

Yes, it looks this way. Last summer Haftar was rebuffed in his attempt to capture Tripoli, now he is better prepared. That's why he refused to sign the ceasefire agreement, he believes he can win.

Poor Libyans. Their country was among the most prosperous in Africa before the 2011 NATO aggression.

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The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syria’s civil war, says hundreds of Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have arrived in Libya and joined the fighting on the side of the Tripoli-based government.

U.S. officials said Hifter's recent push came with the aid of hundreds of Russian mercenaries. U.N. experts said in a report earlier this month that Sudanese armed groups from the Darfur region also joined the fighting recently on both sides.

Countries are now using Libya as a proxy war

UN and Turkey on one side; Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia on the other side

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