Hundreds of Sudanese protested outside the United Arab Emirates embassy in Khartoum on Tuesday against a dubious recruitment drive to fight for renegade Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces.

Sudanese fighters in Libya are reportedly stealing and assaulting locals as they fight alongside rogue General Khalifa Haftar’s troops, forces from Libya’s unity government announced Wednesday evening.

The Minister of Interior of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fathi Bashaga, announced the arrest of ISIS operatives in Abu Ghrain town and the city of Zawiya.

Turkish Anadolu Agency cited Syrian sources as saying that Russia had sent 300 mercenaries, including former members of ISIS, from the regions under the control of the Bashar Assad regime in eastern Syria to fight alongside Khalifa Haftar’s forces in eastern Libya.

Former US Ambassador to Libya, Deborah Jones, expressed her surprise at the statements of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Sirte after he warned that he considered the town a “red line” should the internationally-backed Libyan Government of National Accord aim to take control of it.

The Counter-Terrorism Unit of the Joint Security Operations Room has arrested a suspected member of the al-Qaeda organization identified to be a Tunisian national.

Libya’s internationally recognised government says plans were discussed with the head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM) to jointly “fight terrorism” in the war-torn country during a meeting with Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj.

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) said, on Saturday, that an armed militia is preventing the maintenance of a pipeline of Sharara oil field, which raises the specter of a real environmental tragedy.

The 30 migrants killed by traffickers in Libya on Wednesday were abducted while crossing the country and then tortured to extract a ransom, Bangladesh’s foreign ministry has said, citing a survivor.

The family of a Libyan smuggler killed by migrants have taken revenge by killing 26 Bangladeshis and four Africans, the country’s UN-recognised government said Thursday.