The UN Security Council is voting on a draft resolution that urges all foreign forces and mercenaries to leave Libya and authorizes a small UN team to monitor last October’s ceasefire agreement that ordered their departure.

Italian Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini affirmed his country’s commitment to the military-technical agreement signed with Libya last December.

According to the official spokesman of Sirte Al Jafra Operations Room, Brigadier General Abdul Hadi Darrah announced that one person was killed and 4 others were wounded during violent clashes in Sirte.

The 2021 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community, published yesterday, says Libya faces enduring challenges, instability and risk of renewed fighting.

The 444th Combat Brigade, a security force aligned to the Libyan state, announced Monday that it had closed 11 unofficial militia headquarters in Tripoli.

A Libyan army spokesperson has accused Egypt of sending two planes loaded with ammunition to rogue General Khalifa Haftar, under the guise of medical aid.

A car bomb exploded in Tripoli today killing one person and critically injuring two others in the Janzur area.

The Turkish newspaper, Daily Sabah, said Russian Wagner Group – a private military contractor linked to the Kremlin – is preparing to send 300 Syrian mercenaries to join Khalifa Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya.

The Libyan Army’s Volcano of Rage Operation said it had monitored over the last two days warplanes for pro-Haftar Russian Wagner Group flying over Sirte and Tamenhent, in violation of 5+5 Joint Military Commission understandings and the ceasefire signed in Geneva last October.

The Italian Defense Minister, Lorenzo Guerini, said Libya’s ceasefire is fragile and threatened by foreign mercenaries and militias despite the developments achieved on the political level and the endorsement of the Government of National Unity that is now governing all of the country.