Following his recent capture, a confession by Egyptian militant leader Hesham Ashmawy led to the Thursday discovery of a mass grave in a suburban area of Derna that contains the bodies of several key Al-Qaeda figures, according to a source in the Libyan Center for Judicial Experience.

The Mayor of the Municipality of Al-Sharqiyah in the south-west of the country, Amhamed Arab, has urged the authorities to intervene and put an end to the Chadian opposition gangs that are violating the south region.

Four Libyan fighters were killed and 12 others wounded in clashes against Chadian rebels in Umm Al-Aranib town, southwestern Libya, on Sunday.

Less than a week after he was arrested in Libya, Hisham al-Ashmawy – one of Egypt’s most wanted terrorists – has admitted to knowing the number of terrorists still fighting in central and eastern Libya, along with their locations.

Emergency workers on Sunday uncovered another 35 bodies at a mass grave near Libya’s Sirte, authorities said, taking to 110 the total number of remains retrieved from the site.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi asked Thursday for a suspected jihadist leader and former Egyptian special forces officer captured this week in Libya to be handed over to his country.

New police cars were pillaged by unknown gunmen east of the city of Misurata, local sources said.

A mass grave containing 75 bodies has been found near Sirte in western Libya, an official said Wednesday.

Local news outlets reported sources from Al-Fuqahaa in southern Libya as saying that six Libyans were kidnapped by a Chadian armed group.

Libya’s militia problem is worse than the militia problems of Lebanon, Ghassan Salame, the head of UNSMIL has said.