by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | ISIS
ISIS in Libya did not exist yet. At this time, preliminary election results for the House of Representatives are posted, and while it is still too early to say with any real certainty, the liberal (anti-Islamist) current is claiming victory. Violence has continued,...
by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | International actors
There was no Western Response this week.
by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 4 July, well-known Sufi imam Tareq Abbas was kidnapped in front of his house near Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in Tripoli, not far from Martyrs’ square. Although no one has claimed responsibility for Abbas’s abduction, it is widely assumed to have been the work of...
by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | Libyan actors
Clashes erupted in Tripoli’s western suburb of Janzour between members of the Special Operations Force, which belongs to the Interior Ministry, and a revolutionary brigade with Islamist leanings called the Knights of Janzour, which is now part of the Libya...
by Jason | Jun 27, 2014 | ISIS
ISIS in Libya did not exist yet. During this time, parliamentary elections were held in the midst of an increasingly difficult security situation. Militias continued to fight in the East, with a car bomb in the parking lot of the constitutional committee and new...
