by Jason | Jun 21, 2014 | Other Jihadi Actors
A plane carrying Constitutional Drafting Assembly (CDA) members to Kufra was forced to make an emergency landing at a nearby oilfield airstrip on 18 June after the Kufra airport received anonymous threats that the plane would be shot down. The threats appear to target...
by Jason | Jun 21, 2014 | Libyan actors
The rhetoric on both sides of Operation Dignity intensified on 15 June, when Haftar said that all “terrorists” coming to Libya should leave now or “die here.” In turn, the Grand Mufti called for “revolutionaries” to wage jihad against Haftar and his followers....
by Jason | Jun 15, 2014 | ISIS
ISIS in Libya did not exist yet. However, the week saw the assassination of an Ansar al-Sharia leader in Derna and a senior police officer in Benghazi.
by Jason | Jun 15, 2014 | International actors
On 6 June, UNSMIL Representative Tarek Mitri announced the UN’s support for a Libyan national dialogue, which would bring together some of the country’s most influential actors to settle long-divisive issues. Libyan leaders are expected to meet a week before the...
by Jason | Jun 15, 2014 | Other Jihadi Actors
The Misurati-owned Thobacts Hotel in Tripoli was attacked on 8 June. There was further violence in the east, including the assassination of an Ansar al-Sharia leader in Derna and a senior police officer in Benghazi. A suicide bomber also blew himself up at a...
