Libya Broadens Military Offensive, Dismissing Talks With Haftar
- Fathi Bashagha rules out political settlement with Haftar
- Government forces had recaptured key towns on Monday
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Libya’s United Nations-backed government is accelerating its campaign to reclaim territory lost to Khalifa Haftar after it seized key towns on Monday, the interior minister said, dismissing negotiations with the rival commander to end the civil war amid fears the coronavirus was taking hold in the country.
“We plan to take back all the areas that were under the Government of National Accord,” Fathi Bashagha, security chief for the government in Tripoli, said in an interview hours after his forces announced the capture of areas west of the capital that Haftar had taken a year ago.