Head the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, Fayez al-Sarraj, and Benghazi-based General Khalifa Haftar who is now warring for control of the capital, were actually in the same building in Moscow for peace talks on Monday — an extremely rare and unlikely event in its own right. The Putin-sponsored talks follow an agreement between the Russian president and Turkey’s Erdogan last week to issue an urgent ceasefire call in Libya (the urgent call designated last Saturday for a pause in fighting), but which was immediately rejected by Haftar, despite Russia being among his political backers. Monday’s talks may have also been awkward for Haftar-Russian ties, given Haftar departed Moscow without signing the agreement for an “ unconditional open-ended” ceasefire even after the GNA’s Sarraj did. Likely, Haftar rebuffed the ceasefire — which also would establish a “military commission to determine a contact line” between fighters on […]