Haftar in Paris Upon Invitation From Macron

This noon, the commander of the "Libyan National Army" Khalifa Haftar arrived in the French capital, Paris,  to hold negotiations with the French President Emmanuel Macron over the latest developments in Libya.

The visit came as Haftar had received, last February, an official invitation to visit France.

Since  April last year, Haftar has been leading the Libyan National Army in a battle against militias supporting the Al-Wefaq government led by Fayez Al-Sarraj in Tripoli, with the aim of liberating the capital.

Hours before the visit, the Libyan National Army spokesman, Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, said that the Tripoli militias were mobilizing their forces to launch a massive attack on the army forces, with the support of Turkish terrorist elements.

Al-Mesmari said that, upon inteligence information, the militias are planning to attack all axes of the armed forces.

Earlier, media reports quoted sources confirmed that the Libyan army had bombed arms stores and a joint operations room, inside the Maitika airport in central Tripoli.

The sources explained that the Libyan army said that the joint operations room included Syrian mercenaries and Turkish advisers at the Maitika base.

Aqila al-Saber, the media official of the Libyan Army's Ajdabiya Operations Force, said: "The targeting took place after receiving certain information that armed militias were preparing a terrorist act against civilians in Tripoli, so our forces' artillery initiated a pre-emptive strike, during which they destroyed the Hauser cannons, weapons storages, and tools that were equipped to launch Aggression."

Al-Saber stressed that the process achieved its goals with a great success rate.

He added that intermittent clashes are repeated from time to time in most areas south of the capital, with the exception of areas near the center of the capital, as the battles reached their climax to use heavy artillery and aviation.