Pro-Islamist Libyan media on Monday reported that some 30 Libyans were arrested in the United Arab Emirates following air raids which U.S. officials said were carried out last month by the UAE against Islamist targets in Libya.

Media, including television channel An-Nabaa, said among those arrested were businessmen with long-standing ties to the UAE, including some from Misrata.

Libya's toothless outgoing government admitted Monday from its safe refuge in the east of the country that it has in effect lost control of Tripoli to armed militias.

The interim government led by Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani, which resigned last week, said armed groups, mostly Islamist militias, were in control of ministries and blocking access to government workers.

An Islamist-allied militia group said Sunday it has "secured" a U.S. Embassy compound in Libya's capital, more than a month after American personnel evacuated from the country over ongoing fighting.

An Associated Press journalist walked through the compound Sunday after the Fajr Libya, an umbrella group for Islamist militias, invited onlookers inside.

Tunisian rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 28 people from the sea near Libya's maritime border since Friday and more are expected, local officials said.

The victims were found in an area that has seen many boatloads of illegal migrants capsize.

Tunisian rescuers Friday recovered the bodies of at least 14 people from the sea near Libya's maritime border, in an area that has seen many boatloads of illegal migrants capsize.

A child's body was among those plucked from the sea by the Tunisian coastguard and taken to Ben Guerdane, an Agence France Presse photographer said.

Libyan jihadists said Friday they downed a plane belonging to forces of a rogue general, but a source close to the officer said it crashed because of a technical fault.

The military aircraft came down in Al-Baida in eastern Libya after carrying out air strikes targeting Islamists in Derna farther east, a spokesman for general Khalifa Haftar said.

Migrants have been hit hard by the spiraling conflict in Libya which could lead to more of them taking to unseaworthy boats to try to reach Italy, the International Organization for Migration warned Friday.

Libya's toothless interim government, led by prime minister Abdullah al-Thani, announced late Thursday it had tendered its resignation to the elected parliament, days after a rival Islamist administration was created.

The interim government, operating in the east of the country to avoid the Islamist militias which have a strong presence in Tripoli, said it "presented its resignation to the elected parliament", which is based in Tobruk, 600 kilometers east of the capital, also for security reasons.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday moved to impose sanctions on militias and their political supporters who are fueling Libya's escalating war.

In a resolution adopted unanimously, the 15-member council called for an immediate ceasefire, tightened an arms embargo and asked experts to draw up a list of names of Libyans targeted for sanctions.

The United Arab Emirates and Egypt secretly bombed Islamist militia in Libya, apparently catching Washington off guard, as turmoil in the North African country deepened with the Islamists naming a rival premier.

The U.S. government said on Tuesday that the UAE and Egypt were behind last week's two deadly night raids on Islamist positions near Tripoli airport.