There are those who claim Egypt was behind a mysterious series of airstrikes on Islamist militias in Libya last week – but the Egyptians themselves are not among them. “There is no truth to these baseless allegations,” Egypt’s foreign ministry said in a terse statement on Sunday. Later in the afternoon, President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi bluntly told a gathering of editors: “There are no Egyptian planes or troops in Libya.”
But few would be shocked if there were. On Monday morning, most of Libya’s neighbours will meet in Cairo to discuss responses to the latest Libyan crisis, and few delegations will want as swift a resolution as Egypt’s…
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