At least 3 400 militants of the Syrian armed opposition now in training in training camps in Turkey before they are sent to fight in Libya. This was announced Sunday by Kurdish Agency Firat.
According to him, on the side of the armed forces that support the national consensus Government (NTC) in Libya, fighting is already over 10 thousand mercenaries, taken from the beginning of the year from Syria. The last group of 500 people taken in Tripoli on Sunday.
The fighters sent to Libya Pro-Turkish groups, which are deployed in Idlib province and the border areas in Northern Syria: brigade "al-Moatasim", "Sultan Murad", "Suleiman Shah", "Sukkur al-Shimal" and "Hamzat". According to the Agency, groups of mercenaries are fighting against the Libyan national army (LNA) field Marshal Khalifa the Haftarot on parts of the front in Salah al-DIN South of Tripoli, in Ramla, El Hadaba and in Misrata. Casualties in their ranks made up for the last time 318.
The NTC has officially addressed for the help to Turkey, 28 November 2019, the parties entered into a Memorandum of cooperation in the military field. In Libya, there are two parallel Executive authority: an internationally recognized NTC Faiza Zarraga and temporary office Abdullah Abdurrahman al-Thani, operating in the East of the country, together with the Parliament and supported by the LDF. Field Marshal Haftarot 12 December last year announced the beginning of the final assault on Tripoli with the goal of eliminating there are entrenched terrorist groups. He has repeatedly accused Turkey of supplying arms to the NTC forces in circumvention of the international embargo and sending mercenaries from Syria.
On 19 January in Berlin hosted a settlement conference in Libya at the level of heads of States and governments, including Russia. In the outcome document of the meeting called for a ceasefire, pledged to refrain from interference in the Affairs of Libya, has offered to create a unity government and launch reforms to restore the state, destroyed by NATO intervention almost 10 years ago.
In the second round mezhliviysky talks in Geneva on February 23, a draft agreement on the ceasefire, which was never implemented.
