France24: Haftar’s forces mobilizing for battle to retake oil terminals
France24 TV channel has reported that the forces of Operation Dignity under the command of Khalifa Haftar are mobilizing for a decisive battle at oil crescent.
According to the channel, the battle will aim at retaking control of the oil terminals they had lost for Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) last week.
The BDB forces handed over the key Libyan oil terminals to the Petroleum Facilities Guard of the Presidential Council after kicking Haftar’s firces out of them – Sidra and Ras Lanuf – the Friday before the last.
Uncertainty casts its shadows on Libya as the situation has got more intricate with a possible new war at the only source of money income for Libyans; oil facilities.
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