The British Embassy in Libya’s capital Tripoli on Saturday said reports of foreign powers interfering with the country’s oil facilities are worrying. A short-lived mission uncovered by U.N. investigators offers a glimpse into the world of those who have thrived off Libya’s chaos. The Telegraph report, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of […] The United Kingdom has initiated a proposal to the UN Security Council on Feb. 1 on the withdrawal of mercenaries from Libya. British Petroleum rejected as inadequate a Libyan offer of compensation, and the British treasury banned Libya from participation in the sterling area. Years of conflict have left the center of Benghazi in ruins. In Libya’s case, however, one can hardly count the number of lies on one hand. Six British citizens including two former Royal Marine commandos have been accused of taking part in a botched mercenary mission to Libya to fight on behalf of renegade general Khalifa Haftar.

Libya is a singular magnet for its combination of oil wealth and scrappy standards of combat. The British proposal and the Berlin conference on Libya raise a number of questions about the outlook of the Libyan situation.

In June, mercenaries slipped into its port prepared for more battle.Credit…Ivor Prickett for The New York Times CAIRO — Two former British marines […] From the very beginning of the uprising in mid-February 2011, for instance, opposition-linked media claimed that Qadhafi employed Sub-Saharan mercenaries to clamp down on demonstrators. Libya is a singular magnet for its combination of oil wealth and scrappy standard of combat. A group of Western mercenaries linked with companies based in the United Arab Emirates has been revealed to have been briefly deployed to Libya to … With Russian, Syrian, Sudanese, Chadian and now Western mercenaries drawn to the fight, it has the rare distinction of being a mercenary-on-mercenary war — sometimes, in the case of Syrians, with men from the same country fighting each other. ANKARA Five British mercenaries were involved in an operation to fly assault helicopters for warlord Khalifa Haftar in his offensive to capture Libya’s capital Tripoli, British media reported Friday. 5 mercenaries were offered up to $150,000 each to fly helicopters for warlord Haftar, British media reported. In 1973, the Libyan government announced the nationalization of a controlling interest in all other petroleum companies operating in the country. With Russian, Syrian, Sudanese, Chadian and now Western mercenaries drawn to the fight, it has the rare distinction of being a mercenary-on-mercenary war — sometimes, in the case of Syrians, with men from the same country fighting each other. Britain and the United States on Tuesday urged Russia to stop sending mercenaries to the conflict in Libya, after a recent UN report confirmed …