Our archive of international activity in Libya’s security space including military operations, the presence of foreign operatives and diplomacy pertaining to Libya’s security.
On 22 June, it was reported that Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar met with the head of Egyptian General Intelligence, Major...
On 22 June, the Libyan National Army (LNA) announced the release of Mahmoud Saleh, head of the Front patriotique de libération / Popular Front for...
On 21 June, the head of Egyptian General Intelligence, Major General Hassan Rashad, flew to Tripoli where he met with Government of National Unity...
On 21 June, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Defence announced that 21 Libyan citizens detained in Niger had been transferred to...
On 19 June, the Libyan National Army (LNA)-Chadian joint forces launched an attack on a Tebu armed group which had defected from the LNA 129th unit...
On 18 June, the Nigerien army based at the Madama airbase, adjacent to the border with Libya, launched an attack on the South Liberation Operations...
On 18 and 19 June, Military Intelligence Director (and Commander of the 444 Brigade) Major General Mahmoud Hamza and his accompanying delegation of...
In her briefing to the UNSC on 18 June, SRSG Hanna Tetteh had a significant focus on migration and the climate of hostility towards migrants in...
On 16 June, the second trilateral meeting of the Algerian-Libyan-Tunisian working group on border security was held in Tripoli to discuss and...
On 15 June, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar at the Maximos Mansion in...
On 14 June, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar met with President Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris where the two sides...
On 12 June, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasized in an interview on a podcast hosted by former U.S. National Security Adviser H.R....
On 11 June, Southwark Crown Court in the UK convicted David Greenhalgh, 68, and Christos Farmakis, 48, of brokering the supply of weapons from...
On 11 June, the Chief of the Staff of the Libyan Army, Salahadeen al-Namroush hosted Vallat and a French military delegation at the Tripoli Naval...
On 11 June, EU Ambassador Nicola Orlando, under the patronage of Government of National Unity (GNU) Deputy Minister of Defence Abdussalam Zoubi,...
On 11 June, the Chief of the Staff of the Libyan Army said that the Libyan-Italian Joint Committee concluded its meetings in Tripoli after two days...
On 9 June, the Malta Tax and Customs Administration, in collaboration with the Malta Police Force Drug Squad, intercepted approximately 113...
On 9 June, the US Army announced that from 19 to 22 May 2026, US Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), reached a significant...
On 9 June, US Chargé d’Affaires to Libya Jeremy Berndt along with Deputy Chief of Mission Inga Heemink visited Benghazi. In a meeting with Libya...
On 11 June, US Chargé d’Affaires to Libya Jeremy Berndt and Deputy Chief of Mission Inga Heemink conducted several high-level meetings in Tripoli...
On 8 June, Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission,...
On 8 June, EU Ambassador Nicola Orlando met with the Chief of Staff of the Libyan Army, General Salaheddin al-Namroush, stressing the EU shares with...
On 3 June, IOM said that the previous day it had safely repatriated 182 stranded Nigerian migrants via a chartered Buraq Air flight from Benghazi to...
On 3 June, the UK Ambassador Martin Reynolds accompanied Vice Admiral Edward Ahlgren, Defence Senior Advisor to the Middle East and North Africa...
On 2 June, according to some sources, unusual activity took place at the UNHCR office in Tripoli’s al‑Sarraj district ahead of information about a...
On 1 June, the UN in Libya expressed concern over ‘the renewed spread of misinformation, disinformation, and inflammatory rhetoric on social media...
Hundreds of migrants were rescued off Crete this week having departed from eastern Libya – 143 people in total were rescued on 1 June and 42 people...
On 29 May, the European Court of Human Rights published two cases lodged on 16 April against the State of Italy concerning the Italian Government’s...
On 24 May, 10 members of the Global Sumud land convoy crossed into the 5+5 security zone around Sirte to negotiate safe passage for the humanitarian...
On 22 May, International Criminal Court (ICC) Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan briefed the UN Security Council (UNSC) on developments related...
On 22 May, Greek and Libyan media reported that no renewal request for UNSC Resolution 2292 (2016) had been submitted to the UN Security Council...
On 22 May, EU Ambassador to Libya Nicola Orlando held the 8th meeting of the EU Technical Mission on Rights-Based Migration and Border Management...
Currently, 177 troops from the Libyan army and 331 troops (including a naval vessel) from the Libyan National Army (LNA) are participating in...
On 20 May, the spokesman of the Turkish Ministry of Defence Zeki Aktürk, announced in a press briefing that in total 502 Libyan forces soldiers...
On 19 to 21 May, Libyan militia leader Khaled Mohamed Ali al-Hishri will appear at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes...
On 19 May, a meeting of the Quadripartite Cooperation Committee for Combating Irregular Migration was held in Rome. Participants representing PM...
On 16 May, drone strikes reportedly targeted Rapid Support Force (RSF) supply convoys from south-eastern Libya. Satellite imagery captured on 20 May...
On 16 May, media reports began circulating about a Ukrainian cargo plane bound for Libya being detained due to carrying undeclared explosives. The...
On 12 May in the afternoon, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar arrived with his delegation in Moscow,...
The security threats to Search and Rescue (SAR) vessels operating off Libya appears to be getting worse as another vessel comes under live fire from...
On 11 May, a joint team from Operation Irini, the EU Delegation to Libya, EUBAM, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conducted a technical...
This week, PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba arrived in Rome for an official visit with a senior Government of National Unity (GNU) delegation, focusing on...
On 5 May, Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Defense Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Lieutenant General Abdul Salam...
On 5 May, Security Working Group of the International Follow-up Committee on Libya of the Berlin Process joined members of the Structured Dialogue...
On 4 May, Spanish police said that it had intercepted a freighter in international waters off Spain's Canary Islands on 1 May carrying between...
On 3 May, French Ambassador Thierry Vallat met with Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi, discussing the durability of...
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), as of 2 May, 5,630 migrants have been intercepted and returned to Libya since the...
On 29 April, according to UNHCR, 17 Sudanese refugees died in a shipwreck off Tubruq. 33 people were on board only 7 survived. 9 remain missing....
On 28 April, Deniz Yavuzyılmaz, a Turkish parliamentarian who is deputy chairman of the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP),...
On 27 April, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis arrived in Tripoli leading a high-level Greek delegation to discuss cooperation, migration...
On 27 April, the Libyan National Army (LNA) General Command announced that LNA Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar had paid an official visit to Valleta,...
On 26 April, Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff Khaled Haftar arrived at the headquarters of the General Command of the Jordanian Armed...
On 22 April around 3 pm, the towing cable between a tug and the severely damaged Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz snapped and the ship began...
On 21 April, in a meeting in Moscow between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Government of National Unity (GNU) acting Minister of Foreign...
On 20 April, UK Ambassador Martin Reynolds met with Khalifa Haftar and Deputy Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Saddam Haftar to discuss...
On 20 April, Libyan Army forces arrived at the designated camp in the Turkish city of Izmir to participate in the international tactical exercise...
At least 28 bodies have been recovered along Libyan coasts in recent days. They are all believed to be the bodies of migrants who drowned during an...
On 14 April, Greek authorities said they have rescued over 300 migrants coming mainly from Bangladesh, Egypt, Yemen and Sudan over the previous two...
On 14 April, Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi met with his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantedosi in Rome in the...
On 14 April, Exercise Flintlock 2026, US AFRICOM’s annual special forces exercise, was opened with a ceremony simultaneously in Sirte, Libya, and in...
On 12 April, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar arrived in Jordan for an official visit, holding ‘constructive talks’ with...
On 8 April, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar said he received a phone call from US Senior Advisor Massad Boulos in which...
According to OSINT sources, there appears to have been a sharp drop in suspicious cargo flights recorded between the UAE and Libya in recent months,...
On 7 April, the heavily damaged Russian LPG tanker Arctic Metagaz was still drifting in the central Mediterranean. The ship was reported to be...
On 5 April, the Acting Chief of Staff of the Libyan Army Lieutenant General Salahadeen al-Namroush, held talks in Tripoli with Sudan’s Military...
On 2 April, Radio France International (RFI) revealed an “exclusive RFI investigation into a shadow war taking place on the African continent...
On 2 April, Reuters reported that analysis indicates that the Libyan National Army (LNA) obtained a mix of Chinese and Turkish combat drones,...
On 2 April, the Govenrment of National Unity (GNU) announced that AFRICOM’s Operation Flintlock, which is being hosted in Sirte for the first time,...
On 1 April, the Italian coast guard said it found 19 bodies and rescued 58 people after intercepting a dinghy filled with migrants that was in...
On 31 March, the convoy of the extensively damaged Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz towed by Libyan tugs reached an area near the edge of Malta’s...
On 28 March, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Georgios Gerapetritis visited Benghazi. He was received by Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander...
On 28 March, survivors from a boat which had been at sea for six days without food or water after leaving Tubruq on 21 March said that 22 people had...
On 24 March, Libyan officials said that they had brought the Russian LNG carrier Arctic Metagaz under control while it was drifting inside of...
On 21 March, the NOC announced that through its subsidiary Mellitah Oil & Gas and in cooperation with Italy’s Eni, an international company in has...
On 18 March, Transport Malta informed the media that it has suspended Harmony Jets’ Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and the company’s ‘Certificate of...
On 11 March, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Libyan authorities to surrender suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC). HRW urged Libyan...
On 11 March, the eastern authorities announced the death of two migrants and the rescue of forty others after the vehicle carrying them overturned...
On 10 March, Italian Minister of Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, revealed that Libyan authorities have thwarted 2,568 migration attempts since the...
On 8 March, the UNHCR published its 2026 Sudanese Refugee Response Plan for Libya. The report said that by the end of December 2025, an estimated...
On 4 March, the Libyan Ports and Maritime Transport Authority said that Libya’s Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) had received a distress...
On 28 February, the Benghazi-based Government of National Stability (GNS) issued a formal condemnation regarding the dangerous expansion of regional...
On 26 February, the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a note verbale to the Nigerien embassy in Tripoli...
On 26 February, a leaked report initially published by Russia Today and attributed to the Attorney General’s Office circulated on social media...
On 26 February, IOM said that at least 7,667 people died or went missing on migration routes worldwide in 2025. Sea crossings remained among the...
On 25 February, the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) 604th Infantry Brigade (from Sirte) and the Rapid Intervention Battalion RIB-87 conducted a...
On 20 February, the Libyan National Army (LNA) Ground Forces Chief of Staff announced the start of joint operational activities with Chad. The...
On 17 February, the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) published a long report, revealing how migrants, refugees...
On 16 February, acting Chief of Staff of the Libyan Army Salaheddin al-Namroush arrived in Ankara for an official visit, meeting the Chief of the...
On 14 February, at the Munich Security Conference, Senior US Advisor on Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos met with the US AFRICOM Commander...
On 12 February, the Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin visited Tripoli where he met with Government of National Unity (GNU) PM Abdul Hameed...
On 11 February, French Vice Admiral Lucas visited Tripoli where he met with acting Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Salaheddin al-Namroush to...
On 11 February, the Italian Minister of Interior Matteo Piantedosi visited Benghazi, where he was received at the HQ of the General Command by...
On 11 February, US AFRICOM Deputy Commander Lieutenant General John Brennan and the US Charge d’Affaires Jeremy Berndt met with the acting Chief of...
On 10 February, Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Khaled Haftar opened the ‘First Strategic Security Conference for...
On the sidelines of a regional military conference in Benghazi on 10 February, Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar, accompanied by...
On 9 February, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that fifty-three migrants, including two babies, are dead or missing after a...
On 4 February, in an interview with Anadolu Agency, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Ural Oğul outlined some new findings from the...
On 4 February, the acting Chief of the Libyan Army General Staff, Salah al-Din al-Namroush, met in Tripoli with the Commander of the Italian Joint...
On 3 February, the EU-Libya ‘Technical Mission on Rights-based Migration and Border Management’ met in Tripoli, with the participation of...
On 2 February, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar travelled to Pakistan for an official visit at the head of a delegation including...