Tunisian ISIS leader arrested

On 3 February, local media reported that security forces had arrested a Tunisian ISIS leader, Bilal bin Abdul Wahab bin Trad, as part of a security operation in Nafusa and Sabratha.

UN publishes terrorist monitoring report

On 3 February, the UN Security Council published the ‘Twenty-ninth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities’. The report estimated that there are approximately 50 Al-Qaida...