Author(s): Abdulaziz Ramdhan Ali Alkhtabi, Ahmed Tarik Yassin Mawla
The dilemma of the legal statute of the fighter in armed conflicts is one of the topics that occupied legal jurisprudence and wrote several studies in it. The fighters were classified into legal fighters and illegal fighters, and then a special legal system was established for each of them, and in the context of modern armed conflicts, the phenomenon of mercenaries emerged in a complex and intertwined with terminology. The armed conflict in Libya is one of the most prominent contemporary armed conflicts in which this interference appeared in a striking way, which requires a legal view that determines the legal statues of the fighters in this conflict and defines a legal framework governing each classification of them and dismantling this interference.