As in Julien Gracq's famous novel, nothing seems to be moving in Sirte, in the Libyan desert, where the troops of Marshal Khalifa Haftar have been watching for more than a month for the arrival of their enemies from the west. They aren't the only ones watching the hot, sandy expanse. Russians, Turks, Emiratis, Egyptians, Americans, French, Italians, and the entire international community with them, watch the clatter of arms and troop movements. But nothing is moving.
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When, on June 5, the fighting forces united under the banners of the government of Tripoli and that of Turkey put an end to the offensive launched a year earlier by Marshal Haftar on the Libyan capital, and that they took over all Tripolitania, the western region of the country, the road to the east seemed open to them. The city of Sirte, which symbolizes the border between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, this eastern region of Libya still controlled by Haftar, appeared to them
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