Egypt woos tribes in fight vs Libya

CAIRO: As Egypt flexes its muscle with threats to intervene in Libya’s civil war, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sought to join forces with some of the neighboring country’s powerful tribes.

Cairo hopes the alliances would boost its legitimacy if it were to wade into the battlefield against forces backed by regional rival Turkey, and give it a local partner aside from the volatile strongman Khalifa Haftar, analysts say.