The so-called Ajdabiya operations room of Haftar’s forces has issued orders to police officers in the city and its suburbs to join the fighting axes in Tripoli immediately, giving them a one week ultimatum to join in.

The Ministry of Labour and Chief of Staff aligned to the internationally recognized government based in Tripoli and led by Faiez Serraj discussed on Tuesday ways of organizing and enlisting what they euphemistically referred to as the ‘‘supporting forces’’ to the Tripoli aligned Libyan army. Supporting forces is the Faiez …

The Libyan Interior Ministry said the decision to transfer police officers to the military brigades of Khalifa Haftar, whose forces are waging war on Tripoli, is an attempt to involve security personnel in military operations, for which they are not fit.

Libyan News Agency – based in Al-Bayda in eastern Libya – said Khalifa Haftar issued Tuesday a decision to transfer 678 police officers and personnel from the Interim Government’s Interior Ministry to his military forces.

The members of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) voted Monday unanimously to cancel the position of General Commander of the Libyan Army, which was approved by the Tobruk-based House of Representatives in 2015.

The Interior Ministry called on the security services in the southern region to distance themselves from the decisions made by the east-based parallel government.

The Tripoli Protection Force (TPF) said the central and western military zones had agreed to form a force under a unified command to be positioned in the area from Ras Ajdair on border with Tunisia to Sirte.

Lieutenant General Mohammed Al-Sharif has taken office as the Chief of Staff of the Tripoli-based Presidential Council’s (PC) government replacing Brigadier General Abdelrahman Al-Taweel.

The Chief of Staff of the Libyan army based in west of the country Abdelrahman Al-Tweel has been sacked after his military rank is lowered by the Head of the Presidential Council, Fayez Al-Sirraj.

Tripoli Security Directorate announced the establishment of a joint security plan to secure the capital, with the participation of all components of the Ministry of Interior.