Since the latest escalation of armed conflict in Derna on 15 May, health sector sources report that at least six civilians have been killed and 14 injured, including one child, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Libya(OCHA) reports.

Misrata airport was abruptly shut down yesterday after a group of militias stormed the airport’s customs office and stole about two million euros.

Since the latest escalation of armed conflict in Derna on 15 May, health sector sources report that at least six civilians have been killed and 14 injured, including one child, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Thursday.

A fighter from the ranks of Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled army has threatened to behead and kill Derna people and demolish their houses, in the latest appalling threats by radicals-dominated army.

In early April, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, one of the most powerful leaders in conflict-divided Libya, was treated for an unspecified ailment at a military hospital near Paris.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for the immediate withdrawal of a decree by the Faiez Serraj-led and internationally recognized Presidency Council / Government of National Accord (PC/GNA) in Tripoli that would turn a militia, guilty of abuses against journalists, into an anti-crime unit with very broad surveillance powers.

The Presidential Council (PC) formed in a Wednesday order a new force tasked with securing and protecting the southern region in Libya, the media office of the Head of the PC Fayez Al-Sirraj, reported.

Human Rights Solidarity has expressed their concern regarding the decision of the Presidential Council to form the Deterrence Agency for Combat Organized Crime and Terrorism.

Forces loyal to Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar have launched fresh land and air operations against besieged Derna, one of the last eastern cities still outside of his control whose residents have suffered almost two years of siege warfare.

Libya yesterday informed Egypt that it will return the bodies of 20 Christians who were killed in 2015 by Daesh in Sirte, a Libyan security official said.