Anas El Gomati | Al Jazeera

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Libyan oil sector proxy wars occur during Hormuz tensions, creating dangerous supply vulnerabilities for global markets.

A picture shows silos at the Zueitina oil terminal on September 14, 2016. - Forces opposed to Libya's unity government handed management of four vital oil ports to the National Oil Company on September 14, after seizing them in a blow to fragile peace efforts. Prime minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj called for urgent talks after the ports were captured by forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who supports a rival administration in the country's east.

His name offered an alternative line of succession that Libya’s rival elites could neither control nor neutralise.

In this Saturday, Nov 19, 2011 file photo, Saif al-Islam is seen after his capture in the custody of revolutionary fighters in Zintan, Libya [AP Photo/Ammar El-Darwish, File]

Is Haftar’s ‘Operation Dignity’ really about countering militants and extreme groups in Libya?

In mid-May Haftar's forces stormed the Libyan parliament and called for suspending the ruling General National Congress [AP]