Mitiga Airport Administration said on Facebook that it had suspended flights after the airport was targeted with new airstrikes by Khalifa Haftar’s Air Force on Wednesday evening.

The self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, on Wednesday denied it targeted a detention centre for illegal immigrants near the Libyan capital, after more than 40 people were killed in an airstrike on the building.

The Head of the High Council of State (HCS) has accused Egypt of bombing the migrants’ detention center in Tajoura, eastern Tripoli.

On Tuesday, an airstike against a detention facility for illegal migrants in a suburb of the Libyan capital killed 40 and wounded 80.

The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj has met with the commander of the western military zone Osama Al-Juwaili to discuss the requirements of the next stage of the battle to defend Tripoli against the attacks of Khalifa Haftar’s forces.

At least 40 people have been killed in an air raid at a detention centre for refugees and migrants in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, according to health and emergency officials. Malek Mersek, a spokesman for the state emergency medical services, said 80 others were wounded in the attack late on Tuesday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied ownership of weapons found in Libya after a senior US senator demanded an investigation of reports that American-made missiles were seized at a base belonging to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar.

A senior US senator demands an investigation over reports that American-made weapons were found at a base of forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, the East Libyan-based military commander, as reported by Anadolu Agency. 

A baby girl and her father were killed on Monday in an overnight grad rockets shelling by Khalifa Haftar’s forces on Hadba Project area in Tripoli.

Forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar threatened a barrage of new air strikes on Libya’s capital, a day after five soldiers were killed in air raids on Tripoli.