The mayor of Gharyan Yousif Bdairi said the municipal council has told the Presidential Council’s Head Fayez Al-Sirraj urging him to announce the city a disaster area after the forces of Khalifa Haftar seized on April 04.

The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sarraj, has ordered for kind treatment of the captives of Khalifa Haftar’s forces and the release of the ones who are under 18, calling their families to take them home.

Fighting near Tripoli has killed 121 people and wounded 561 since strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive earlier this month to take the Libyan capital, the World Health Organization said Sunday.

Khalifa Haftar, the Libyan warlord bombarding Tripoli in an attempt to oust the country’s UN-recognised government, has won unequivocal support from the Egyptian leader, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, his closest political ally.

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) will investigate UAE financial and military support of warlord Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive to capture the country’s capital earlier this month.

More than 1,000 people gathered in Tripoli on Friday to denounce Libya‘s military strongman Khalifa Haftar‘s offensive. Protesters say they will return every week until Haftar’s forces withdraw.

A military source said, on Friday, that two planes arrived in Benina airport in Benghazi from Abu-Dhabi carrying Emirati military officers to supervise the movements of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to support General Khalifa Haftar’s war against Tripoli.

Saudi Arabia has reportedly vowed to finance a military campaign led by a rogue Libyan warlord to capture the capital Tripoli from the internationally recognised government.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter to end his self-styled Libyan National Army’s push on Tripoli, saying there can be no military solution to the country’s problems.

The European Union urged the forces of Khalifa Haftar on Thursday to stop their offensive on the Libyan capital Tripoli.