A senior State Department official said that his country is continuing its determined efforts to end the conflict in Libya at an early date, and to reduce foreign interference. Meanwhile, retired Major General Khalifa Hifter continues his bombing of Tripoli.
The American official called Haftar to stop the military operations and give the talks a chance, and said that his attack on Tripoli only strengthens the extremists.
He added that he had informed the parties providing military support to the parties to the conflict that they had to abide by the United Nations arms embargo.
The US official also stressed the importance of ending the oil embargo as soon as possible, stressing that President Donald Trump's administration holds regular meetings with Libyan Prime Minister Al-Wefaq Al-Sarraj, Haftar and other Libyan leaders as part of its efforts to reach a truce and end the conflict.
In the field, the Al-Jazeera correspondent reported yesterday that shells had fallen indiscriminately in the residential neighborhood of Seven, southeast of the Libyan capital, and Haftar forces launched a missile and heavy artillery attack on Maitika airport, its vicinity, and neighborhoods south of Tripoli.
Sources said that Haftar forces also shelled residential neighborhoods in the Abu Salim area, in the center of the capital.
For its part, the National Accord government said that the international condemnations did not and will not stop the bombing of civilians by the Haftar militia, "and only stop using the right to defend ourselves."
This came in the words of government spokesman Mohamed Kanounou on his Facebook page, where he said that the indiscriminate bombing of "gangs" on civilian neighborhoods was an attempt to thwart all dialogue efforts.
On Thursday, the UN mission in Libya strongly condemned the continued violations of the armistice announced on January 12.
Regional war
In Geneva, where military and political meetings were held between representatives of Haftar and the Al-Wefaq government, the international envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salama, warned today that the current war in this country could turn into a regional war because of the participation of non-Libyan parties in it.
Salameh strongly condemned the continuation of the violence, and warned against the consequences of the violations of Haftar forces - which have been attacking Tripoli since last April - the agreed truce by bombing vital installations in Tripoli and civilian areas.
The UN envoy said that a new round of political talks between the two parties to the conflict will be held in Geneva on March 25, and he spoke of holding a new round of military talks between the two parties under the auspices of the United Nations.
For his part, President of the Supreme Council of State Khaled Al-Mashri called on all national forces participating in the Geneva Dialogue to suspend their participation until progress is made on the military track.
Al-Mashri asked, in connection with Al-Jazeera, the usefulness of the political dialogue in light of Haftar's forces continuing to bomb civilian facilities in Tripoli.