Reliable Libyan sources said military leaders arrived in Tunisia on Wednesday to contact General Paolo Serra, the Italian security adviser to the UN mission in Libya, about securing the Government of National Accord led by Fayez Al-Sarraj.
According to the sources, participants included commanders from General Khalifa Haftar’s Operation Dignity associated with Al-Qaqa Brigade and Al-Ajmi Al-Atiri Battalion, leaders from Libya Dawn formations such as Al-Halbous and Al-Mahjoub brigades and Al-Mirdas Battalion, and figures from Sabratha.
UN Secretary-General’s envoy to Libya Martin Kobler held talks on Wednesday in Muscat with Oman’s minister responsible for foreign affairs, Yusuf bin Alawi.
Official sources said they discussed developments in Libya and Kobler’s efforts with the parties to the crisis.
Muscat sought to mediate among the opposing sides, ease conditions, and bring them into negotiations.
The parliament described in the source as the militia parliament had announced that its president, Nouri Abu Sahmain, recently met House of Representatives president Aguila Saleh in Oman.
A Libyan army soldier was killed and three wounded in clashes in different parts of Benghazi with the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council and Ansar Al-Sharia.
Al-Jalaa Hospital media officer Fadia Al-Barghathi said the night before last that the hospital received the soldier’s body and three wounded over the preceding two days following clashes on the Al-Laithi and western fronts. Injuries ranged from moderate to critical.
Sami Tantoush, son of the former head of the Warshefana Shura and Elders Council, was released two months after unidentified gunmen kidnapped him in Tripoli’s Al-Siyahiya area.
Sheikh Ayoub Al-Sharaa, spokesman for the Libyan Elders Council, announced that its mediation secured the release of three Tunisian women from Libyan prisons.
Forty-nine Tunisian sailors detained in Zawiya for around a week returned early on Wednesday, according to Tunisian activist specializing in Libya, Mustapha Abdel Kebir. Libyan authorities also deported thirteen undocumented Chadian migrants through the land border in Sabha.