The chief of staff of the Libyan army was killed in a plane crash shortly after it took off from Ankara, the Libyan government's Prime Minister confirmed. The crash killed General Mohammed Ali Ahmed Al-Haddad and four other senior officials at the time of the tragic incident.
The delegation was returning from a series of high-level meetings with Turkey's top defence officials. The crash comes at a critical political moment, just as the Turkish parliament passed a motion to extend the deployment of its soldiers in Libya for another two years.
