Tripoli-based House of Representatives called in a statement on Wednesday the UN Security Council to ban military aircraft from flying over Libyan territory to protect civilians from the air attacks carried out by Haftar forces and his foreign backers.

Since mid-2014, when the ongoing low-level civil war erupted in Libya after the failure of the post-revolutionary political reconciliation process, the UN has vainly attempted to push competing Libyan factions toward a compromise. Different UN special envoys launched processes of reconciliation and accommodation that inevitably collided with a complex matrix …

The family of one of Libya’s most prominent female politicians believe she was killed hours after she gave a TV interview criticising eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar’s offensive on Tripoli.

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain (AOHR) has said that “retired Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar bears full responsibility for the crime of abduction of the Libyan MP Siham Sergiwa and other crimes of kidnapping and assassinations, aimed at terrorising all his opponents and keeping them away from public …

The Secretary General of the United Nations presented to the Security Council a comprehensive overview on the Libyan crisis and the activities of UNSMIL on 26 August which was published yesterday.

House of Representatives (HoR) member Ms. Siham Sirgiwa is still missing over a month after her abduction. She had been abducted from her home in the eastern city of Benghazi on 17 July.

The Interior Minister of the Interim Government of eastern Libya Ibrahim Bushanaf has accused “terrorist groups” and “sleeper cells” of kidnapping the member of the House of Representatives (HoR) Siham Sergiwa, adding that the case is still under investigation.

The family of a Libyan member of parliament who was abducted after she criticised rogue General Khalifa Haftar, fear she may have been tortured or sexually abused by her captors.

The Tobruk-based, and internationally-recognized parliament of Libya, the House of Representatives (HoR) has referred the breakaway Tripoli HoR to the Public Prosecutor for accessing its bank account in Tripoli.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and all member states should form an investigative committee into the disappearance of Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) member Siham Sergewa, lawmaker Jalal al-Shuwaihdi has said.