Libya Other
Khalifa Haftar
خليفة حفترField Marshal and commander of the Libyan National Army; de facto authority in eastern Libya from Tobruk. Conducted a 2019–2020 military campaign against Tripoli; remains the dominant non-GNU actor.
- Country
- Libya
- Party
- Independent / unaligned
- Role
- Other
Position
1 source document on file for Khalifa Haftar (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.
Source documents
Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →
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Interview Arabic 2019-06-19 Khalifa Haftar — exclusive interview “Roadmap Beyond Tripoli” (Al Marsad / Libyan Address), 19 June 2019 (English translation of Arabic)
First and foremost, we count on the efforts of our own soldiers and officers, and on the support of the Libyan people […]. Such change begins with the war on terror, the dismantling of militias, and the ending of this…
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Khalifa Haftar [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/haftar-ly
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Khalifa Haftar." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/haftar-ly.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-haftar-ly,
title = {{Khalifa Haftar}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Politician profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/haftar-ly},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.