A reliable Libyan source revealed that a high-rank military delegation from the Libyan National Army carried out the first secret visit to Khartoum, with an Egyptian and Emirati mediation, following years of mutual hostility between the army led by Libyan National Army Commander Marshal Khalifa and Sudanese authorities. The reliable source noted to Asharq Al-Awsat that the delegation, which compassed leaders from the national army, met security and military officials to discuss bilateral ties and resolution for the clash between the two parties. This visit occurred following the latest rapprochement between Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Sudanese President Omer Hassan al-Bashir, the thing that contributed to the success of the Egyptian mediation to bring views together, added the source. The source, who preferred to remain anonymous, stated that among the figures that the Libyan military delegation met were head of the Sudanese intelligence body in addition to officers from the Sudanese army. Yet, the source rejected to declare whether the delegation met the Sudanese president. This visit ends years of tension between Sudan and the authorities that dominate the east of Libya, including the parliament, the government and the national army which is led by Haftar. Officials there used to accuse Sudan of supporting terrorist groups. Sudanese security agents on Wednesday brought home from Libya seven Sudanese women who they said were members of ISIS. The seven women, dressed in traditional Sudanese clothes and wearing headscarves, were shown to journalists at Khartoum airport where they were welcomed by their relatives amid chants of “Allahu Akbar”. The group, which included twin sisters, had arrived from the Libyan city of Misrata, security officials said. “The seven women were members of the extremist group and some had even participated in fighting on the battlefield," Brigadier Tijani Ibrahim of Sudans National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) said. The women had gone to Libya in 2014 and 2015 to join the jihadist group, Ibrahim told reporters, as the women stood in a line against a wall with their heads bowed. “Thanks to Allah, we have returned to our country,” said one of the women. Ibrahim said experts will talk to the women to understand what made them join ISIS. “After that, we will try to reintegrate them into the Sudanese society,” he said. The group was welcomed by relatives waiting at a hall inside the airport, some of whom cried and hugged the women when they were brought in by security agents A relative of one of the three children brought along with the women said that her father had taken her two brothers to Libya three years ago. “My father took them telling them that they were going for a trip. One of my two brothers and my father were killed in Libya.” Sudanese officials say dozens of young Sudanese men and women had joined ISIS over the past few years. Several groups of students from Sudan - some holding Western passports - had traveled to Syria, Iraq and Libya to join the group. Sudanese media has reported the deaths of some of the students while fighting for the group in the three countries. In 2017, Sudanese security agents brought home a four-month-old baby girl whose parents were killed in Libya while fighting for the extremist group.