The Libyan National Army has reached the last pockets of extremist resistance against LNA forces in the eastern city of Derna, arresting Osama bin Laden’s former driver Soufian bin Qamou, informed sources said.

The self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) loyal to renegade general Khalifa Haftar have mobilised to drive out rival groups from the country’s northeastern oil crescent, according to security forces in Ajdabiya.

Libya’s National Oil Corporation demanded on Saturday the “unconditional and immediate” withdrawal of fighters loyal to Ibrahim Jahran from the Ras Lanuf and Es Sider terminals, following a surprise assault on the oil-rich region on Thursday.

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) warned Saturday of an environmental disaster after clashes in its eastern Libya’s oil crescent region, where 34 people from both sides were killed according to local military and media sources.

A militia opposed to rival Libya leader Khalifa Haftar attacked oil sites under his control on Thursday, inflicting fresh disruption on the chaos-hit country’s economic backbone.

The Hafter-led Libyan National Army (LNA) Air Force revealed yesterday that it had carried out three airstrikes against ‘‘Al-Qaeda terrorist gangs formed of terrorists fleeing Benghazi and foreign mercenaries from Africa’’.

Two unarmed men in civilian clothes were brutally executed by militants of warlord Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled army in Derna. A horrific video emerged online on Wednesday showing a group of militants beating, kicking and torturing the two men before killing them.

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The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to authorize the European Union’s maritime force to enforce an arms embargo on the high seas off the coast of Libya for another year.

The UN has renewed its call for humanitarian access into the city of Derna where the Hafter-led Libyan National Army (LNA) claims it is in control of 75 percent of the city.