Sisi says Egypt won’t stand idle in Libya if security is threatened
MAHMOUD MOURAD and OMAR FAHMY EGYPT will not stand idle in the face of any direct threat to Egyptian and Libyan security, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has said after lawmakers allied to commander Khalifa Haftar urged Cairo to intervene militarily in Libya's civil war. Tribal leaders who flew in from Haftar's Benghazi stronghold told Sisi at a meeting in Cairo that they authorized him and the Egyptian army to intervene in their country to counter what they described as the "Turkish invasion and terrorism". The meeting, broadcast on state TV, illustrates the growing regional stakes in Libya, divided since 2014 between…
