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Eastern Libya urges Egypt to send troops if Sirte attacked

by Associated Press
| June 24, 2020 4:03 AM

CAIRO (AP) — The speaker of Libya's east-based parliament urged Egypt on Wednesday to make good on its threat to send troops to fight rival Turkey-backed western Libyan forces should they attack the strategic city of Sirte, Egypt's state news agency reported.

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