The Military Council of Misrata and the Misrata Revolutionaries Union have disowned the UN-proposed government and its Presidential Council, slamming them as illegitimate, treacherous, and foreign-agenda-oriented.

A report by the Lebanese newspaper, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, revealed that Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops to mobilize in order to engage in a huge battle and military operation against what he describes as “militias” that attacked Brak Al-Shati last Thursday.

Dignity Operation field commander, Fadal Al-Hasi, was killed in a landmine explosion in Benghazi on Sunday, as fierce clashes against rival groups rage in the war-torn city.

At least 10 airstrikes were conducted by Dignity Operation Saturday night targeting several locations in Al-Jufra district in central Libya.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Petroleum Facilities Guard commander Ibrahim Jadhran, the man whose three-year oil export terminal blockade, National Oil Corporation (NOC) chief Mustafa Sanalla has said cost Libya $100 billion in lost revenues.

The State Council (SC) has condemned the Presidency Council’s (PC) suspension of defence minister Mahmoud Barghati without waiting for the result of the enquiry it has ordered into the Brak Al-Shatti massacre.

The Libyan National Army (LNA) has said it is fighting Al-Qaeda and claimed that some of its soldiers killed at Brak Al-Shatti had been beheaded. It also said the majority of the attackers it had subsequently captured were foreigners.

The UN-proposed government’s Presidential Council (PC) issued a statement Friday suspending the defense minister-designate, Mahdi Al-Barghathi, following the attack on Brak Al-Shati base in southern Libya by the Third Force and fighters loyal to the defense ministry.

At least 141 people, mostly soldiers loyal to Libya’s Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, have been killed in an attack on a southern airbase, a spokesman for his forces said on Friday.

A car bomb exploded near Bilal Ben Rabah mosque in Suluq, eastern Libya killing the prominent leader of Awageer Tribe, Ebrik Al-Lawati.