Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar insisted on Sunday that the mandate of the country’s UN-backed government has run out after what he said was the expiration of a tattered 2015 political deal.

Fighting today between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the local mujahideen forces east of Derna is reported to have left one LNA soldier dead and another wounded.

New satellite imagery from Terra Server dated September 24 and November 10 this year has shown accelerating construction on Al-Khadim airbase in Al-Marj, eastern Libya, War is Boring reported on Friday.

Khalifa Haftar has preliminarily approved upcoming elections, but calls for the relocation of the headquarters of the High National High Elections Commission (HNEC) from Tripoli and the change of its management, Al-Salheen Al-Ghaithi, a member of the Dialogue Committee of House of Representatives, declares.

Mohammed Siyala, the foreign minister of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), came to Moscow this week for talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. While Syria has been occupying center stage of Russia’s Middle East agenda, Moscow has never ceased its activities in Libya since it became involved …

Russia is ready to consider easing an arms embargo for Libya, the Interfax news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying on Wednesday.

The High Council of State (HCS) has called for total equality with the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) in order to have successful amendments’ talks for the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA).

The head of the Presidential Council (PC) of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez Al-Sarraj, told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that there are some factions are working against holding the general elections in Libya.

Clashes this morning outside Tripoli’s Mitiga airport have been dismissed by officials there as “just skirmishes” which had not affected flights.

The Arab League has come out in support of the action plan put forward by UN envoy Ghassan Salamé to solve the Libyan crisis by focusing on the amendments based on the Libyan Political Agreement as the only way forward.