East Libyan forces carried out airstrikes around major oil ports overnight as they sought to regain control of the area from a rival faction, a military spokesman said today.

Security sources said that Benghazi Defense Brigades controlled Ras-Lanuf Military Airport after clashes with the army of the House of Representatives (HoR) led by General Khalifa Haftar.

On February 21, the bodies of 74 migrants were found by the Libyan Red Crescent on the shore of Zawiya, a Libyan town known for being a capital of fuel smuggling and human trafficking.

Just four days after vicious fighting was bought to a halt by Presidency Council mediation, Tripoli is once again tense this evening as militias erect sand or container roadblocks and armoured vehicles take up positions.

The National Commission for Human Rights in Libya has strongly deplored the extrajudicial execution of a member of Benghazi Shura Council by a radical group affiliated with Dignity Operation.

The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, has been following with deep concern the continued reports of civilians in Benghazi trapped in the midst of a combat zone without access to food and water.

Libya is guilty of the human rights violations of unarmed civilians, including disappearances and torture Presidency Council (PC) head Faiez Serraj admitted today.

A car bomb exploded in Gawarcha, Benghazi on Sunday killing two leaders of Saaqa Brigade of Operation Dignity forces led by Khalifa Haftar.

The Tripoli based, UN backed Government of National Accord (GNA) announced on Saturday that it had brokered a ceasefire in the Libyan capital after two days of fighting between rival gunmen in the city that has left at least nine people injured and forced other residents to hunker down in …

A radical Salafist group fighting alongside Khalifa Haftar’s self-proclaimed “Libyan National Army” released on Friday an ISIS-style video showing chilling execution of a rival fighter in Benghazi.