By Karim Mezran, for the Atlantic Council.
A few years ago, I was asked by an international journalist to comment on rumors about the presence of French troops in eastern Libya.
Purportedly, France was actively supporting former Qaddafi army general Khalifa Haftar in his attempt to expand his control over the entire region of Cyrenaica.
This was done under the pretext of combating Islamic radical terrorists and other opponents of the general, who had been appointed as Marshal by the rubber stamp Libyan parliament in Tobruk.
(Source: Atlantic Council)
