Libyan army commander Khalifa Haftar on Thursday ordered his forces to march on Tripoli, the capital of the U.N.-backed government, sparking fears of a major showdown with rival militias.
Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar attends a military parade in the eastern city of Benghazi on May 07, 2018.
The 2011 NATO-supported uprising that toppled and later killed longtime dictator Moammar Kadafi led to chaos in Libya. The country has been split between rival governments in the east and west and an array of militias fighting over power and oil fields. Guterres not only urged a halt to military movements but also appealed for"containment, calm" and"military and political and verbal de-escalation — and the recognition that ... there is no military solution for the problems in Libya."
"I am sipping coffee now in Gharyan," Haftar's top aide Abdel-Salam Hassi told the Associated Press over the phone."God willing, we will enter the rest of the cities without clashes."
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