Turkey shuts down Ankara airspace after business jet carrying Libya's top military commander crashes. Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad is feared dead.

A small airport in southern Libya – controlled by a military commander allied to the United Arab Emirates – has become a vital conduit for weapons, fuel and mercenaries to a Sudanese paramilitary group,

For Pakistan to ignore FM Haftar means ignoring half of Libya's strategic geography. Libya is seen as a transit hub for ISIS militants and a source of the spread of Islamic militancy. Pakistan's military has hard-earned counter terrorism expertise and FM Haftar stands out as a leader who is willing to cooperate with the outside world to mitigate the threat of transnational terrorism.