Eastern Libya’s military leader, Khalifa Haftar, has acquired what appear to be Chinese and Turkish combat drones, Reuters reporting has found, despite a long-standing U.N. embargo on supplying weapons to the divided North African country. Commercial satellite images show at least three drones at Al Khadim airbase, located in the desert about 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of the city of Benghazi, between late April and December. Their arrival has not previously been reported. What appeared to be ground control equipment for the aircraft was still visible this year, according to three weapons experts who reviewed the images.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) played a significant role during a 2014-2020 civil war in Libya, when Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) tried to overthrow the U.N.-recognised government in Tripoli on the grounds it was harbouring armed gangs and “terrorists”, which it denied.

Full report : Satellite images reveal at least three new drones at an airbase located in Eastern Libya.