The commander of Dignity Operation Khalifa Haftar and his forces pose a serious threat to the Libyan Amazigh because of their (Amazigh) rejection of the return of the military reign and the terrorist ideology, Amazigh Supreme Council in Libya said Thursday.

A freeze on military operations near the tense Ras Jedir border has been declared after talks between Zuwara municipality and the Presidency Council (PC).

In a surprising move, Gen. Khalifa Hifter, Libya’s eastern military strongman, announced his acceptance of elections in Libya as a way out of the political deadlock in the war-ravaged country. Spokesman Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Mesmari announced the decision in a news conference Dec. 27.

Amazigh human rights activist, Rabea Jayash, was abducted on December 27 in Benghazi by an armed group affiliated with Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled army.

Islamic State (IS) in Libya may be planning an attack on the country’s so-called Oil Crescent, where its export terminals and many fields are located, a senior official from the U.S. Africa Command told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

A Salafist battalion affiliated with the Dignity Operation forces that led by General Khalifa Haftar had exhumed and destroyed the shrine of the Imam Al-Mahdi Senussi in the city of Al-Kufra, south-east Libya.

In recent weeks, the unfolding tragedy of refugees stuck in the Libyan migration system has caught the eye of the European public. The conditions they face are terrible: beatings, torture, systematic rape, slave trade and killings.

On 29 November, United Nations special envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame stated that the UN mission was working on holding elections in Libya before the end of 2018.

The Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord has issued a statement on Tuesday denouncing the exhumation of the shrine of the father of Libya’s monarch Idris Al-Senussi: Mohammed Al-Mahdi Al-Senussi in Al-Kufra last Friday.

Libya’s Interior Ministry of the UN-backed government has approved to recruit 500 new members of the diplomatic security service responsible for protecting foreign embassies and missions in Libya, according to a security official on Monday.