Clashes near Libya's capital intensified on Tuesday, May 21, as fighting for besieged Tripoli raged on for the second month.
The eastern forces of Haftar's Libya National Army launched an assault on Tripoli in early April and are bogged down in southern suburbs by fighters loyal to the U.N.-backed government of Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj.
Libya is on the brink of a civil war that could "lead to the permanent division of the country," a top U.N. official warned the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday as he urged the world body to stop countries that were fueling the conflict with weapons.
