Libya Warns Egypt against Military Intervention; France Backs Cairo

Libya’s High Council of State, an advisory body to the internationally-recognized government in the country, has warned Egypt against military intervention in Libya.

“We urge the Egyptian army not to be dragged into a gamble, whose fate will be similar to previous gambles, like the case in Yemen,” the Libyan council said in a statement on Monday, in an apparent reference to Egypt’s costly intervention in Yemen in the 1960s.

Egypt supports Libyan rebels under the command of a military strongman named Khalifa Haftar, even though reports suggested recently that Haftar himself had fallen from grace with his foreign patrons, including Egyptian President Abdel-Fatah el-Sisi.

Sisi — whose inchoate attempts to spearhead a peace process for Libya have been ignored by stronger international actors — said on Saturday that he had ordered the Egyptian military to prepare for “external military missions” in Libya “if required.”

Source: Press TV