The US military said on Friday it lost an unmanned drone aircraft over the Libyan capital, Tripoli, where the internationally recognised government of Prime Minister Fayyez Sarraj has been battling the forces of rogue General Khalifa Haftar for months.

Photos of a crashed MQ-9 Reaper drone bearing Italian Air Force markings in Libya appeared on social media Wednesday.

The Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has unveiled links between two Russians arrested for spying in Tripoli earlier this year and Wagner Group whose mercenaries are fighting for Khalifa Haftar’s forces in southern Tripoli.

At least 10 people have been killed and 35 wounded in an air attack that hit a biscuit factory in Libya in what a senior United Nations official said was a possible war crime.

At least seven civilians were killed, most of them foreign workers, and 30 were injured in an air strike on Monday that hit a biscuit factory in southern Tripoli, Libya’s health ministry said.

Foreign nationals living in the Libyan capital have been left with a stark choice. They can stay in Tripoli where they risk their lives because of the ongoing fighting, or they can head home to potential poverty.

The United States has called on Libyan renegade General Khalifa Haftar to stop a months-long offensive on Tripoli and said it would back the country’s internationally recognised government against “Russia’s attempts to exploit the conflict”.

Social media activists circulated photos for three civilians’ bodies they said were murdered on the coastal road between Tripoli and Misrata after being shot by gunmen who sneaked Tuesday night into the area and started opening fire on several cars.

Spokesman for the Emergency and Ambulance Service, Osama Ali, has confirmed that four members of Moftah El-Seid family have been injured after a shell hit their home in Ain Zara district, south Tripoli.

Khalifa Haftar’s artillery weapons attacked southern Tripoli neighborhoods, including Salah Al-Deen where two civilians were killed and others were wounded, media office of Volcano of Rage Operation said.