A renegade Libyan general opposed to the UN-backed unity government has claimed Russia is seeking to end the arms embargo in his country and could supply him with weapons.

Libya’s General Khalifa Haftar has no plans to resume talks with his UN-backed rival in the west, according to comments in an interview.

The Media Office at Air-Defense Department in the city of Misrata said, on Tuesday, that a military plane affiliated with the army of the House of Representatives (HoR) under the leadership of General Khalifa Haftar had bombarded Al-Jufra Air-Base. The air raid had destroyed a civilian plane and caused casualties.

Misrata’s Third Force last night recaptured the key Gwirat al-Mal checkpoint from the Libyan National Army in an operation which included at least one airstrike.

Western Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) is involved in fuel smuggling amid the current hardships in Libya, said the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanallah on Sunday.

The substitute Head of the Presidential Council (PC) of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Al-Mijibri, has taken new decisions to appoint new officials in the GNA, which led to a wave of anger at the PC construction.

Some 268 special forces affiliated with the Tobruk-based parliament in Eastern Libya were killed in 2016, according to a statement issued by the group.

The spokesman of the Third Force of the Government of National Accord which is tasked to secure the south, Mohamed Glewan, said they are circling the airbase of Barak Al-Shati, where a force pro-Haftar’s Operation Dignity is positioned, led by Muhammed Ben Nayel.

Events occurred in Al-Jufra, two days ago, raised many concerns regarding the military confrontations between Dignity forces led by General Khalifa Haftar and Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous forces, after one of the later battalions were bombed by Dignity planes. The Operations “Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous” Chamber threatened, in a statement, to respond to any …

The UN-proposed government’s Presidential Council (PC) denounced the statements of what it called some of the eastern region’s military leaders in which they belittled the sacrifices of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos “heroes” and the martyrs.