The EU’s High Representative Federica Mogherini is expected to put forward EU plans for possible military intervention in Libya to the UN Security Council later today.

As world leaders continue to grapple over how to resolve the chaos left in post-Qaddafi Libya, high-ranking military personnel from Arab countries will discuss the matter in Cairo on May 18. The talks could also include France and Italy, which played key roles in the coalition’s bombing campaign.

Issandr El Amrani, North Africa project director at the International Crisis Group, talks to Middle East Eye about the UN-brokered peace talks in Libya, the likely direction of the divided nation and the continuing conflict over the country’s territory and resources.

Khalifa al-Ghwell, the prime minister of the Libyan Tripoli-based National Salvation Government, noted that [his government] is a government for all Libyans, whether they were in the west, east or south of the country, and that it offers its services, as much as it can, to all of them equally, …

The prospect of bloody fighting between Islamists in Derna has taken a step closer to reality with an ultimatum from the “Shoura Council of Mujahideen in Derna” (SCMD) to the Islamic State (IS) telling it to renounce extremism or face the consequences.

No decision was made at Tuesday’s session of the General National Congress (GNC) to suspend participation in the UNSMIL-sponsored dialogue, despite reports of a formal request being presented by some GNC members.

The internationally recognized Libyan government claimed Wednesday that it had destroyed a fighter jet belonging to the rival Islamist administration based in Tripoli.

The internationally recognized Libyan government claimed Wednesday that it had destroyed a fighter jet belonging to the rival Islamist administration based in Tripoli.

Libyan sources have talked about the fall of, “a large part of the central region in Libya,” under ISIS control, as a part of the militant group’s quest to expand its influence in this country.

The Libyan Air Force launched a series of airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions in the eastern city of Derna on Saturday, the stronghold of a number of extremist groups currently operating in the war-torn country.