A site associated with Libya’s Benghazi Defense Brigades was hit by an airstrike south of the country’s central Al-Jufra area, injuring at least one person, local sources have said.

A spokesperson for the military operation of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous has condemned in a presser the crime of bombing the Misurata-based brigade in Hoon, Jufra on Monday by Operation Dignity warplanes.

The Presidency Council (PC) boycotting member Omar Laswad has warned of a new looming military attack against the eastern oil terminals and fields by the same forces that had attempted to take it over at the beginning December.

A pro-Haftar warplane air attacked one of the sites of the Defense Ministry of the UN-proposed government in Al-Jufra, central Libya, said Brigadier General Edriss Bu Gwaitin, the commander of Brigade 12 Infantry of the UN-proposed government.

It is not always the case that popular uprisings against despotic authoritarian regimes and their total removal will necessarily lead to a new democratic system of government. The world has witnessed many examples of this, although and in some cases, the regression to authoritarianism was for a short period.

Khalifa Haftar, The head of the Libyan National Army has appointed an 11-man committee to negotiate with tribes and elders in the south of the country, Fezzan, to end the instability there. The committee, made up of southerners, is also charged with creating a united army out of the various …

On May 3, units of the Libyan Armed Forces commanded by Gen. Khalifa Hifter moved from Benghazi westward, launching what was said to be an offensive on Sirte to dislodge the Islamic State, which has been in control of the coastal city since February 2015.

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Monday that the Islamic State group was spreading from its stronghold on the Libyan coast to the interior of the country with the aim of getting access to oil wells.

Jufra District, Libya, Asharq Al-Awsat—Militias in Libya have seized chemical weapons from arsenals located in the southern and central provinces of the country that used to belong to former leader Muammar Gaddafi, military sources told Asharq Al-Awsat.

Nineteen people, most of them said to be members of Libyan National Army (LNA) soldiers, were reported to have been murdered in southern Libya early this morning by a group of militants. Some are said to have had their throats slit, others to have been shot.