Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar announced Sunday that his forces were ready to secure upcoming elections in the country.

The Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Gen. Khalifa Hifter launched a military campaign in the Libyan south on Jan. 15 to secure oil fields and eliminate criminal gangs.

Libya should hold parliamentary and presidential elections by year-end, the internationally recognised Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.

The member of the Libyan east-based House of Representatives (HoR) for Murzuq town of southern Libya, Mohammed Lino, has told reporters that Khalifa Haftar’s forces killed over 17 people, injured scores and burnt over 107 houses. 

Aman Organization Against Discrimination (AOAD) has voiced concern over the violations, attacks on civilians and targeting of people based on their identities in Murzuq.

The Head of the High Council of State (HCS) Khalid Al-Mishri said Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi is intervening in Libya’s domestic affairs in order to found a regime similar to that he commands in his country – “a regime of an iron fist.”

The House of Representatives (HoR) Speaker Aquila Saleh has demanded that the Chairman of National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, lift the force majeure declared in December at Sharara oilfield – the country’s largest oilfield.

The African Union on Monday called for a global conference in July to try to resolve the conflict in Libya, with the aim of holding elections in October.

The National Front Alliance has renamed itself as a political party after announcing on Sunday the formation of its political office with instructions to its Head to reshuffle the members, according to the Mahmoud Jabril’s Facebook Page.

The Western Military Zone of the Presidential Council said that the hostile acts that took place in the past days in the area of Ghadwa -southeast of Sabha- including the bombing of Murzuk and the interference of armed groups of Sudanese opposition groups in the hostilities, clearly shows that the …