Unidentified warplanes carried out air-strikes on targets controlled by Islamist militias in Tripoli. Libya said the planes were foreign, but the US, Italy and France denied involvement.
Libya's parliament passed a measure calling on the UN Security Council for foreign intervention to protect civilians from deadly clashes between rival militia groups.
France expands military operations across the Sahel to chase down jihadist insurgents, as Mali opens peace talks with Tuareg separatists that have seized much of the country.
A fire from fuel tanks near Tripoli's international airport set ablaze by rocket strikes is out of control as clashes between rival militias continue in the area, darkening the city's sky.
Gunmen killed at least 20 Egyptian troops on the Libyan border—amid reports that President Sisi is backing rogue military operations against Islamists in Benghazi.
As rival militias battle for control of Tripoli's airport, a suspect in the 2012 attack in Benghazi is found dead in Libya's eastern town of Marj, also under control of a local militia.
Moroccan women protested to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane after he gave a speech urging women to stay at home and not work jobs.
Women's rights activist and attorney Salwa Bughaigis was assassinated at her home in Benghazi hours after she defied threats by voting in Libya's general election.
Heavy fighting broke out in Benghazi as forces led by Gen. Khalifa Hafter attacked an alliance of Islamist militias—a move disavowed by Libya's central government in Tripoli.
The Berber "provisional government" in the eastern mountains of Kabylie has joined calls by Algeria's opposition for a boycott of this week's presidential election.
Libyan authorities are calling for foreign intervention against terrorists after a car bomb at a Benghazi military academy left eight soldiers dead and 20 wounded.
Pressure is mounting on Tripoli to act against "federalist" rebels in Cyrenaica after they allowed a North Korean-flagged tanker to ship from a port under their control.
