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 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...
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...
Currently, 177 troops from the Libyan army and 331 troops (including a naval vessel) from the Libyan National Army (LNA) are participating in...
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, media reports began circulating about a Ukrainian cargo plane bound for Libya being detained due to carrying undeclared explosives. The...
On 16 May, drone strikes reportedly targeted Rapid Support Force (RSF) supply convoys from south-eastern Libya. Satellite imagery captured on 20 May...
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, Security Working Group of the International Follow-up Committee on Libya of the Berlin Process joined members of the Structured Dialogue...
On 5 May, Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Defense Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Lieutenant General Abdul Salam...
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, Libyan Army forces arrived at the designated camp in the Turkish city of Izmir to participate in the international tactical exercise...
On 20 April, UK Ambassador Martin Reynolds met with Khalifa Haftar and Deputy Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Saddam Haftar to discuss...
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, Exercise Flintlock 2026, US AFRICOM’s annual special forces exercise, was opened with a ceremony simultaneously in Sirte, Libya, and in...
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 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, the Govenrment of National Unity (GNU) announced that AFRICOM’s Operation Flintlock, which is being hosted in Sirte for the first time,...
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 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...
On 1 February, the new commander of EUNAVFOR Operation Irini, RADM Marco Casapieri, had his first visit to Tripoli during which he met with the...
On 29 January, the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Ministry of Defense Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Major General Abdussalam...
On 29 January, several European media outlets reported that the European Union is planning to allocate approximately three million Euros to fund the...
The new British Ambassador Martin Reynolds visited Benghazi on 27 January, meeting (separately) with Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa...
On 25 January, the Senior Advisor to the President for Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs Massad Boulos and his delegation travelled to Benghazi, where...
On 22 January, the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office released a preliminary report with the initial technical findings concerning the 23...
On 18 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar received the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian...
On 16 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar officially visited Paris at the invitation of the Office...
On 15 January, Turkish media reported that the Ankara Public Prosecutor's Office has launched a multi-faceted investigation, including technology,...
On 15 January, Major General Mahmoud Hamza, Director of the Military Intelligence Department and commander of the 444 Combat Brigade, made an...
On 13 January, Turkish media reported that a Cypriot flight attendant, who was part of the crew that brought the Libyan jet to Turkey before it...
On 10 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar arrived in Cairo on an official invitation from Egypt’s...
On 7 January, Chad’s Minister of Public Security and Immigration, Lieutenant General Ali Ahmad Aghabash, met in the capital N’Djamena with Libya’s...
Greek officials have said that 19,948 arrivals were confirmed via the so-called southern corridor from eastern Libya to southern Crete in 2025, a...
On 6 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar arrived in Jordan’s capital Amman following a formal...
On 30 December, nine Libyan truck drivers, residents of al-Jawf/Kufra in south-eastern Libya, were abducted in northern Chad near the desert road...
In late December, a Libyan National Army (LNA) delegation visited Amman to discuss new plans to train its officers during 2026.
The death of several of western Libya’s senior military leadership in an airplane crash in Turkey on 23 December shocked Libya, with the...
On 22 December, the Turkish parliament approved a motion extending the deployment mandate of the Turkish Armed Forces in Libya for an additional two...
On 22 December, Reuters published a report highlighting the key role of Kufra airport in becoming a conduit for supplies and fighters from the UAE...
On 20 December, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar visited the Egyptian frigate ENS Port Said (976) at the Benghazi Naval...
On 19 December, Greek authorities conducted one of the largest rescue operations recorded this year so far in the waters south of Crete. A heavily...
On 17 December, Pakistan's Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir arrived in Benghazi on an official visit, heading a high-level...
On 16 December, the sixth meeting of the joint Libyan-Italian Security Task Force on Security Affairs was held, in the presence of a number of...
On 14 December, the Turkish Presidency formally submitted a motion to Parliament for a 24-month extension of Turkish troops’ deployment in Libya....