In a Libya wracked by conflict, Bashar al-Assad's Syria has been happily taking advantage of the situation. Damascus has thrown its weight behind the Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which operates from Benghazi. An indication of the strengthening of this alliance is the presence on several occasions in recent months of two Syrian air force Ilyushin IL-76-T on the tarmac at Benina airport, in the regional capital of Cyrenaica.
These military transport aircraft