Libya warns Egypt against military intervention, France backs Cairo

Libya’s High Council of State, an advisory body to the internationally-recognized government in the country, has warned Egypt against military intervention in Libya. “We urge the Egyptian army not to be dragged into a gamble, whose fate will be similar to previous gambles, like the case in Yemen,” the Libyan council said in a statement on Monday, in an apparent reference to Egypt’s costly intervention in Yemen in the 1960s. Egypt supports Libyan rebels under the command of a military strongman named Khalifa Haftar, even though reports said recently that Haftar himself had fallen from grace with his foreign patrons, including...