A security guard was wounded in an exchange of fire between Security forces and inmates at Majir Prison in Zliten city on Tuesday, authorities said.

The Ministry of Interior said Sunday that security forces managed to arrest ISIS Amir Al-Hisbah as well as another militant linked to al-Qaeda last month, without disclosing further details.

The Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha met with the French ambassador Beatrice de Helene in Tunisia and discussed mutual cooperation in security, anti-terrorism, corruption and money laundering.

The Interior Ministry called on the security services in the southern region to distance themselves from the decisions made by the east-based parallel government.

Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha ordered to investigate and arrest 17 suspects accused of committing murder in the capital Tripoli, including the sons of the Kani family, who are fighting alongside Haftar, in his war on Tripoli.

The Libyan Interior Ministry of the Presidential Council’s government said Thursday its central investigation apparatus had arrested an ISIS senior leader by the name Yaser Saleh Al-Majiri, A.K.A. Abu Dujana.

The head of the counterterrorism service at the Interior Ministry of the Libyan Tobruk-based government, backed by the Libyan National Army (LNA), has been injured in a car bomb blast in Benghazi, a source in the ministry told Sputnik.

Libya, once again, is on the boil. Khalifa Haftar, who leads the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) in the eastern part of the country, set off alarm bells this week when he ordered his troops to march on Tripoli where an internationally recognized government is seated. Haftar refuses to accept …

The Presidential Council in Libya’s capital Tripoli has issued a statement denouncing the threats made by the forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar, who ordered an advance on western region to “liberate it from terrorists.”

The Tripoli Protection Force (TPF) said the central and western military zones had agreed to form a force under a unified command to be positioned in the area from Ras Ajdair on border with Tunisia to Sirte.