Libyan Arab Armed Forces

The Libyan Arab Armed Forces, widely known as the Libyan National Army or LNA, are the armed forces of the Libyan faction led by Khalifa Haftar. The House of Representatives nominated Haftar to command them on 2 March 2015, when they were presented as a nominally unified national force made up of a ground force, an air force and a navy. They launched Operation Dignity against the General National Congress and Islamist armed groups on 16 May 2014, and during the Second Libyan Civil War they were loyal to the House of Representatives that met in Tobruk. About half of the force is reported to consist of militias, among them Salafist Madkhali groups and Sudanese, Chadian and Russian mercenaries. In November 2019 the United Nations Panel of Experts on Libya began calling it the Haftar Armed Forces.