A spokesman for Derna Shura Council, Mohammed Taher, confirmed that their positions in Dhahr al-Hamr and Hila frontlines were targeted by seven air strikes, but no human casualties were reported.

Two fighters from Omar Al-Mukhtar operations room of Khalifa Haftar’s forces were killed and two others were injured as the Derna Shura Council attacked Monday morning the Dignity Operation fighters at Kersa checkpoint in western Derna.

Four people were injured in heavy artillery shelling on Derna by armed groups of the eastern forces of Khalifa Haftar.

Wanis Bukhamada has been reassigned to Derna but not sacked as head of the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) Special Forces, sources close to him have revealed.

The Commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar, has been on a visit to Egypt over the last couple of days as part of as what has been referred to as “joint coordination between Egypt and the army leadership in the fight against terrorism”.

Member of the High Council of State, Mansour Al-Hasadi, said that they had contacted the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, to inform him of the latest developments in the file relating to Derna and of the military threats posed to the city by the Dignity Operation forces.

The spokesperson of Derna Shura Council, Mohamed Al-Mansouri, told LIBYAPROSPECT, on Tuesday, that the circulated news about the movements of the Dignity Operation forces that led by General Khalifa Haftar to break in the city of Derna are just false news.

Warlord Khalifa Haftar is doing whatever it takes to have control of more territories in the country. His militants have been besieging Derna for more than a year, cutting food, fuel and medical supplies. They use all kinds of weapons to shell the city as they try to advance closer …

The United Nations has said it is “appalled” by apparent retaliatory killings in Libya following reports of eight bodies found in the eastern cities of Benghazi and Derna.

Fighting today between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the local mujahideen forces east of Derna is reported to have left one LNA soldier dead and another wounded.