"The number of those killed in today’s clashes has risen to 27," the channel quoted the Libyan emergency medicine center as saying, TASS reported. Previously, nine people were reported to have been killed and dozens injured. Armed clashes sparked in Tripoli late on August 14 between the 444th brigade and the so-called Special Deterrence Force. As the Libya Al Ahrar television reported later, elders of the Suq al-Jum'a district east of Tripoli handed over the commander to the chief of the GNA general staff at Mitiga Airport. However, as local television reported, gunfire and sporadic clashes in the capital continued even after the handover.

Source: Libya Today August 16, 2023 19:42 UTC