by Jason | Jun 12, 2019 | ISIS
On 3 June, ISIS is suspected of undertaking an attack on the al-Fuqaha gate. This follows reports of a group of armed men establishing a fake checkpoint near the location. Both incidents remain unverified. On 4 June, ISIS is suspected of being involved in an...
by Jason | Jun 12, 2019 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 10 June, an Egyptian court has sentenced Mohammed Farouk and Ashraf al-Sayyed to three years in jail in what has been dubbed the “Returnees from Libya” case, with the convicted accused of participating in terrorism outside of Egypt and seeking to launch attacks...
by Jason | Jun 12, 2019 | International actors
On 7 June, a bipartisan group of eight members of the US House of Representatives sent an open letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking the White House to clarify its Libya position by clearly rejecting the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) military offensive...
by Jason | Jun 12, 2019 | Libyan actors
On 9 June, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported the deaths of 653 people as a result of the clashes in Tripoli, 41 of them civilians. Another 3,547 have been wounded, 126 of them civilians. The clashes between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and anti-LNA forces...
by Jason | Jun 4, 2019 | ISIS
On 27 May, Misrata operations room in coordination with the central regions criminal investigation apparatus undertook a raid in Abu Grein, arresting alleged ISIS supporter Faris Belhaj (alias Khattab). On 28 May, the Misratan Central Counter-Terrorism Force arrested...
