Libya's Interior Ministry has decided to support a military campaign by renegade general Khalifah Haftar against Islamist militants, the state news agency LANA said on Wednesday, quoting a ministry statement.

Libya's top air defence commander also joined Haftar's campaign, according to a video message carried by a local television station

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