Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) launched air strikes against “foreign armed groups” near its border with Chad.
LNA spokesperson Ahmad Mismari said it carried out the attack on Friday after earlier having announced an operation to secure the frontier. The army hit Chadian rebel positions on the Libyan side of the border before launching an airborne assault.
Mismari promised the LNA would “no longer allow armed groups or factions to use Libyan territory to launch attacks against neighbouring countries”.
Civil unrest in Libya for the past 12 years has seen rival leaders in the country forge alliances with various rebel factions in neighbouring Chad and Sudan.