Since the fall of the Gaddafi regime, Libya has become an arena for the games of international powers, and Haftar - with Arab and Western support - played a role in igniting a war between the sons of the same homeland, so that the country, rich in its oil wealth, entered a state of division and chaos.

The documentary touched on the situation in Libya through the sequence of events, after the overthrow of Gaddafi's rule, those who revolted against him did not lay down their arms, and the country was divided against itself, and 3 cities fought for power and oil sites: in the west Tripoli and Misrata on the one hand, and Benghazi on the other hand in the east.

The city of Tarhuna (southeast of the Libyan capital Tripoli) reflected the state of chaos in that period, as a militia close to the Salafist movement tightened its grip on the city, committing massacres and arbitrary arrests, and even olive fields turned into mass graves.

Libya entered a dangerous phase with the sudden appearance of Haftar, who appointed himself commander of the Libyan army, and turned into a powerful and mysterious figure. The key to the mystery was the career of the man, who was a colonel under the Gaddafi regime and ordered an attack on Chad in 1987, but was captured and recruited by the CIA to overthrow Gaddafi, according to an American newspaper.

After failing in his mission, he chose to reside in northern Virginia, and owned many properties with his children.

Former UN special envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame says Haftar has begun to interest outside parties, especially the United States and France, who have focused on his potential role in countering terrorism.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian acknowledges that his country has supported Haftar's army, which he said had "fought terrorism" in Derna, Benghazi, Sirte and elsewhere.

Haftar and Wagner militia

Haftar made moves on the Libyan scene, and launched a military operation under the name of "Road Map" in which he announced the control of his forces over vital military sites, and announced - in a statement - freezing the work of the General National Congress and the government and declaring the constitution, which the government rejected at the time and considered a coup.

He also launched Operation Dignity of Libya, and part of eastern Libya rallied around him, but Tripoli and Misrata refused to follow him and considered him a new tyrant.

The war broke out; Libya plunged into open war, international conferences and UN Security Council reports followed, but nothing changed on the ground.

Haftar was not satisfied with that, as in 2019 he launched a major offensive against the forces of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and is at the gates of the Libyan capital, and all Misrata fighters headed to Tripoli to help the forces of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord.

Libyan MP Abu Bakr Ahmed Saeed said that everyone was surprised by the entry of Haftar's forces to Tripoli, and the question at the time revolved around the party supporting this force, which headed from east to west, a question answered by the commander of the Sirte and Jufra operations room, Major General Ibrahim Bayt al-Mal, who confirmed – in his statement to the documentary program – that they confirmed the presence of forces from the Russian private company "Wagner" that were fighting alongside Haftar's forces in the battle for Tripoli airport.

A UN Security Council report also established "the presence of the Wagner militia in Libya, and that it reports on its military activity to its headquarters in St. Petersburg, Russia," and confirms Wagner's presence in Tarhuna at the gates of Tripoli, particularly around Libya's three main oil sites.

The Sudanese fuel the war in Libya

The documentary also highlighted the UAE's role in training Sudanese and sending them to fight in Libya after giving them work contracts. In 2019, Sudanese fighters appeared on Libyan soil alongside Haftar's forces. Abdul-Ilah, a Sudanese who was deceived into fighting in Libya, recounts how he and others received four months of training in the UAE and then transferred with 4 other Sudanese to Libya without giving them any details.

Although an international arms embargo on Libya has been in place for 40 years, weapons have flowed into Libyan territory and Russian tanks, heavy U.S. artillery and mobile rocket launchers have emerged from Serbia. Air and land borders were open as long as Haftar controlled them.

In 2019, Libya entered another era, and Ghassan Salame confirms that the government of Fayez al-Sarraj was then facing Haftar's group, which was supported by a militia and mercenaries from other countries, and that al-Sarraj sought help from several countries, including the United States, Algeria and Turkey, and only found Turkey, which became the largest supporter of the Government of National Accord, and provided fighters with drones that were capable of tipping the balance of the conflict in favor of Tripoli, as Haftar was forced in the spring of 2020 to withdraw his forces from western Libya.