location: Sultan
notes: Mustafa Sharksi, who led revolutionary forces in Misrata in 2011, was reported by the army to have been captured today 35 kilometres north of Ajdabiya when the Islamist militia he was leading (the Benghazi Defence Brigade) to relieve trapped militants in Ganfouda was intercepted. Air force planes attacked a convoy, destroying at least four vehicles, while the army moved in and captured Sharksi who was taken to Khalifa Hafter's HQ in Marj. There is also an unconfirmed report that Usma Jadhran, the hardline Islamist brother of Adjabiya-based Petroleum Facilities Guard commander Ibrahim Jadhran, died in today's fighting.
target_text: location: Sultan, fatalities: 10