The forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar have been closing in on the Libyan capital, which is controlled by the UN-backed government.

As General Khalifa Haftar’s offensive closes in on the Libyan capital of Tripoli, US troops have withdrawn, leaving the UN-supported Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj on his own. A scholar told Sputnik that Haftar is the man the international community wants, but they only want him so he’ll resume production in …

Former Tunisian president, Moncef Marzouki expressed his fears that Tripoli would be destroyed by Hafar after giving him the green light from some Arab countries to attack it.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday strongly urged Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar to halt his offensive on Tripoli and return to UN-sponsored talks to avoid a civil war.

49 members of the House of Representatives (HoR) – mostly from the western region – condemned in a statement Monday, the treacherous attack against Tripoli and its environs, calling for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the attacking force to its headquarters.

The United Nations strongly condemned an escalation of violence in Libya on Monday and urged for fighting to stop following an airstrike east of the capital Tripoli.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) of the UN Secretariat said in a report on Monday that 2,200 people were displaced from their homes because of the battle in southern Tripoli, the capital of Libya.

The American Alhurra TV channel reported Monday that the forces of the National Accord Government were able to impose their control on the Tripoli International Airport, while the forces of the Libyan National Army withdrew to the Qasr bin Ghashir area.

Tripoli’s only working airport was targeted in an airstrike on Monday, as forces loyal to renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar continued their advance on the capital, ignoring international calls for a truce. Mitiga airport, in the eastern quarter of Tripoli, was shuttered after it was attacked by Haftar’s so-called Libyan …

As the fighting between the forces loyal to renegade General Khalifa Haftar and the UN-backed government’s army intensifies, human traffickers continue to profit from boatloads of African migrants hoping to reach Europe.