On April 8, Russia blocked a resolution in the UN Security Council that would have called upon Libyan National Army leader Khalifa Haftar to halt his offensive in Tripoli, which began on April 4.

The International Criminal Court will deploy a team of investigators to Libya at the request of the internationally recognised government, as rogue general Khalifa Haftar presses an offensive to seize the capital, killing hundreds of civilians.

Germany has asked for a new emergency session on Thursday at the UN Security Council to discuss Libya’s status quo.

The UN Security Council was divided Wednesday on how to address the crisis in Libya after fresh negotiations on a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in Tripoli failed to yield agreement.

The United Nations on Wednesday described the latest series of rocket fire in Libya’s capital Tripoli as the “heaviest fighting” since the outbreak began, and strongly condemned the shelling, Anadolu reports. A barrage of shells struck the Abu Salim neighborhood and districts of Algrarat and Salahuddin in the capital late …

The UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, has condemned in the strongest terms the overnight heavy rocket shelling on the high-density residential neighbourhood of Abu Slim in Tripoli which resulted in scores of civilian deaths and injuries.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini said that Haftar’s attack on Tripoli is a military coup against the legitimacy and an invasion of the capital Tripoli.

Tunisian Defence Minister Abdelkareem Zubaidi said on Tuesday that two armed groups consisting of 24 Europeans coming from Libya crossed the border and were forced to hand over their weapons.

Egypt is supplying advanced military equipment to Libyan rogue general Khalifa Haftar as his forces pursue a bloody operation to seize the Libyan capital, high-level Egyptian sources have said.

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani called for imposing an effective arms embargo on Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan National Army’s (LNA) and suggested forcing the LNA leader to withdraw his troops from the territories seized during the army’s ongoing operation to liberate Tripoli.