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28/01/2016

Originating Zintan and other militias in the region of Tripolitania.- Carlos Echeverría Jesús

The Zintan militia was the most important armed actor within the Al Baida/Tobruk bloc until General Khalifa Haftar entered into scene as military actor in Libya in 2014. For the time being, the Zintan militia has become one among the most important pillars of the Haftar’s led-Libyan National Army (LNA), the embryonic future Libyan Armed Forces. The Zintan militia’s geographic base in the Nafusa Mountains, a strategically situated region south-west of Tripoli, played an important role providing this armed group protagonism during the 2011 revolts against the Muammar El Gadaffi’s regime. The Zintan militia remains, almost five years after the revolts started, an additional armed actor in the fluid and chaotic Libyan scene. The evolution of and the role played by the Zintan militia is deeply studied in this Research Document.

Author: Carlos Echeverría Jesús

THIS DOCUMENT IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN SPANISH LANGUAGE.

 

 

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