The Presidential Council has dissolved the Tripoli-based Special Deterrence Force (SDF) and ordered the formation of Deterrence Anti-Organized Crime and Terrorism Apparatus, which it said will be part of the interior ministry.

The Presidential Council’s Interior Ministry finished Saturday a joint security plan to secure the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Senior officials in the self-styled Libyan national army have been holding secret meetings to agree on a successor to their hospitalised leader Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.

Head of the Libyan General Staff Abdul Razek al-Nadori has denied reports that he was promoted to chief-of-staff (Libya’s highest military post), replacing General Khalifa Haftar, who is currently undergoing medical treatment in France.

Meetings for uniting the Libyan army in Cairo, Egypt, have been a failure, The New Arab reported military sources from Misrata as saying.

The Chief of the Defense and Security Backup Commission at the High Council of State (HCS) Belqasim Deberz, said the HCS rejects the meetings in Egypt between delegates of the Presidential Council headed by its chief of staff Abdelrahman Al-Taweel and those of Khalifa Haftar’s self-styled army headed by his …

Chief of staffof the General Command of the Libyan National Army Abdel Razek Nadori and Chief of General Staff of the Libyan Army Abdul Rahman al-Tawil arrived in Cairo on Sunday to participate in the sixth round of negotiations to unify the Libyan military under Egyptian auspices.

The Presidency Council (PC) has taken a number of steps to reduce tensions and end the on-off fighting in Sebha, the new spokesman for Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj said.

The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sirraj announced Sunday the formation of a military force to secure southern Libya, which is witnessing tribal clashes for days.

Wanis Bukhamada has been reassigned to Derna but not sacked as head of the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) Special Forces, sources close to him have revealed.