SEBHA, Libya – Brigadier General Saddam Khafila, commander of the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) joint operations room, inspected military operations in southern Libya on Saturday as part of a major security sweep aimed at stabilizing the restive region. Khafila, along with Major General Al-Mabrouk Sehban, commander of LNA’s southern military zone, and other senior officers toured residential buildings in the Um Al-Aranib district of Sebha. Their visit was to review progress of ongoing security activities, according to a statement by the LNA’s media office. The inspection comes a day after the LNA announced the launch of military operations to purge southern areas of foreign armed groups and human trafficking networks. The LNA maintains aerial surveillance over the entire area of ongoing military operations in the south, added Al-Mismari.
