Six Western countries including France and Italy have renewed their support for Libya’s unity government despite widespread violence and instability a year after it was installed under a UN-brokered deal.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, on Saturday, that the Libyan authorities should guarantee the safety and should immediately provide medical care for the 120+ women and children who fled from the fighting in the city of Sirte, in the Misrata prison, where they are being held.

Concern is rising for more than 120 women and children, some of them wounded, held for weeks in Misrata after they were found among IS terrorists in the final stages of the Sirte siege.

Algeria refused to receive Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar in military attire during his recent visit, possibly signalling that Algiers will not accept Haftar as a military leader.

A MIG 23 fighter plane crashed yesterday near Tarhuna, 90 km southeast of Tripoli, killing both its pilot Mohammed Gadush and trainee Izzedine Al-Midni.

Media sources reported Wednesday that an airstrike was conducted by Khalifa Haftar’s Operation Dignity warplanes on Ganfudah, Benghazi, killing a man and his wife after targeting their house.

The Algerian Minister of Maghreb, African Union and Arab League affairs, Abdel Qader Messahel, said that the commander of the army of the House of Representatives (HoR), Khalifa Haftar, should make concessions to reach understandings with the Libyan factions.

The U.S. said Tuesday it has ended military operations aimed at driving out of its sole Libyan stronghold.

A group of officers has demanded that the Presidency Council appoint, as a matter of urgency, a commander-in-chief of the Libyan armed forces.

The United Nation’s envoy for Libya Martin Kobler has congratulated the Libyan people for reclaiming control of the city of Sirte from Daesh but reminded them to remain “vigilant” in the face of terrorism.