"The Libyan army's Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, has been killed in a plane crash in Turkiye while returning from an official visit to Ankara. Turkish officials said the private aircraft, which was heading back to Tripoli on Tuesday, requested an emergency landing due to an electrical failure just minutes after takeoff, but then lost contact."
"Al Jazeera's Malik Traina said people in Libya were mourning al-Haddad, whom he said was a key figure in efforts to unify the country's fractured military. He really was someone who tried to build up the military institutions, especially in western Libya, a place that is divided with powerful armed groups and militias controlling vast areas of land, Traina, reporting from Tripoli, said."
Lieutenant General Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, Libya's chief of the General Staff, was killed in a plane crash in Turkiye while returning from an official visit to Ankara. The private aircraft requested an emergency landing after an electrical failure minutes after takeoff and then lost contact, killing al-Haddad, four senior Libyan military officials and three crew members. The Libyan government declared three days of national mourning. Al-Haddad had served as chief of staff since 2020 and worked within the United Nations-recognised Government of National Unity in Tripoli to reconcile competing armed factions and to strengthen military institutions, particularly in western Libya where militias exert significant influence.
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