Iraqi Ambassador in Cairo Diaa Al Dabbas condemned Tuesday what he named as the barbaric crimes of Daesh "terrorist gangs" in Libya's Sirte.

In his word at the emergency Arab League meeting on Libya, Dabbas also referred to the random shelling of residential neighborhoods and the murder of tens of captives.

The Iraqi diplomat called for working on activating the joint Arab action system and all Arab League and UN resolutions aiming to put an end to such "gangs" and face their ruinous ideas.

He also called for working through Jordan, the only Arab member at the UN Security Council, to issue a resolution cancelling the arms ban on Libya's national army.

Fighting continues in Libya where two rival governments and parliaments, together with an assortment of Islamists, tribesmen and armed groups, are battling for control of cities and regions, four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.