Field Marshal Khalifa Belqasim Haftar (Arabic: خليفة بلقاسم حفتر‎; born c. 1943) is a Libyan-American[2] military officer and the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), which, under Haftar's leadership, replaced nine elected municipal councils by military administrators,[2] and as of May 2019[update], was engaged in the Second Libyan Civil War.