Libyan militia leader Khalifa Haftar visited Cairo on Thursday, the second time he has been in the Egyptian capital since launching an offensive on Tripoli.

Chairman of the Presidential Council (PC), Fayez Al-Sarraj, said Wednesday that the countries supporting Haftar have been common knowledge for years and there is no need for elucidation.

For the last four weeks, the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been the latest battlefield in Libya’s on-and-off war of the past five years. However, this time it is very different. It is on a much larger scale than ever before and for very different motives. Khalifa Haftar’s forces marched …

Two civilians were killed and four captured on Thursday in a southern Libyan town held by strongman Khalifa Haftar, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, sources said.

Libya’s UN ambassador, Al-Mahdi Al-Mughrabi, called on Wednesday the international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hold accountable those responsible for crimes committed in Tripoli.

The UN’s health agency, the World Health Organization, says 443 people have died and 2,110 have been wounded in violence in Libya’s capital since the head of the self-styled Libyan National Army, rogue General Khalifa Haftar, launched an offensive against Tripoli last month.

United Nations sanctions monitors are investigating likely use of an armed drone by eastern Libyan National Army (LNA) forces or a supporting “third party” in an attack last month on troops affiliated with Libya’s internationally-recognized government, according to a confidential report to the UN Security Council, Reuters reports.

Libya’s besieged UN-backed government has launched a full-fledged effort to get the Donald Trump administration to abandon strongman Khalifa Hifter and press US Arab allies to do the same.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a ceasefire in the month-long battle for Libya’s capital Tripoli after meeting with Fayez al-Sarraj, the prime minister of the country’s internationally recognised government.

Air force jets loyal to the Libyan General Khalifa Haftar yesterday struck several positions of the internationally-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in the south of the capital Tripoli, a well-informed military source has told Anadolu Agency.