Grand Mufti Sheikh Al-Sadiq Al-Gharyani said Libyans have the right to defend themselves from the UAE’s brutal air raids on civilians and infrastructure in Libya, urging the Libyan government to look for anti-UAE allies to curb its evil.

The United Nation’s Libya mission urged authorities in the country’s east on Thursday to reveal the fate of a Libyan lawmaker who was abducted in Benghazi in July.

Photographs of the latest stages in the redevelopment of Libya’s Wazen land border crossing with Tunisia emerged this week.

The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj has confirmed that his government has submitted a complaint to Moscow about Russian mercenaries fighting alongside Khalifa Haftar’s forces that are leading an offensive against Tripoli.

The Libyan Navy said on Wednesday it had rescued 90 irregular migrants including seven women off the Khoms town, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of the capital Tripoli, Anadolu reports.

A statement issued by the spokesperson for the EU yesterday said that there is no military solution to the Libyan crisis, hostilities must end immediately, and it called for a return to UNSMIL-led political dialogue.

The Chinese chargé d’affaires in Libya said China is investigating the use of its drones in the fighting in Tripoli.

Scores of deaths and injuries from Khalifa Haftar’s forces – 9th Brigade – were documented by social media footage after heavy clashes in southern Tripoli between Haftar’s forces and Libyan Army forces under the command of the Presidential Council’s government.

Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), has explained the situation in the war-torn country and described Libya’s potential future in an interview with Sputnik.

Khalifa Haftar told Sputnik that Moammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif Al-Islam, has every right to run for president in Libya.