International actors

Concerns about the security of Libya’s southern borders persist as the Libyan National Army (LNA) appears to reinforce the al-Tum border crossing...

On 25 September, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar officially visited Abu Dhabi, the capital of the...

On 25 September, International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor confirmed receiving Libya's Request for Assistance, authorised and...

On 24 September, the multinational naval exercise SEABORDER 2026 concluded at Abu Sitta Tripoli navy base. The exercise, which was conducted under...

On 24 September, the Chairman of the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Land and Sea Borders Committee, Muhammad Al-Harari, signed the African...

On 23 September, Government of National Unity (GNU) PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba received in Tripoli the Chief of Staff of the Tunisian Army, General...

On 18 September, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Defence confirmed that investigations are ongoing regarding the sabotage cell...

On 17 September, Belqassem Haftar, Director of the Libya Development and Reconstruction Fund (LDRF), met Turkish National Intelligence Organization...

On 17 September, the (eastern) Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency deported 81 migrants from Benghazi after completing the required legal, medical and...

On 15 September, it was revealed that three Russian ships had offloaded their military cargo the day before at the port of Tubruq in eastern Libya....

On 15 September, 231 migrants arrived in southern Crete. According to the Hellenic Coast Guard, two groups were rescued south of Crete by their...

On 14 September, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that the trial of Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri will begin on 4 May 2027. El Hishri...

On 12 September, CNN published a report on the presence of Ukrainian drone operators embedded in Africa, citing a Ukrainian naval drone operator...

On 10 September, the Chief of the Italian Defense Staff General Luciano Portolano conducted an official visit to Tripoli on the invitation of Libyan...

On 7 September, in the morning, videos circulated online showing Libyan men storming the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) offices in...

On 6 September, Russian opposition journalist Alexander Nevzorov published a video purporting to show multiple drone strikes against a...

On 3 September, the UN Human Rights Council released a report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan (Sudan...

On 21 August, AFRICOM reported that a joint eastern (LNA) and western (GNU) Libyan military delegation had visited Ramstein Air Base in Germany on...

In her UNSC briefing on 18 August, SRSG Hanna Tetteh commented on the security situation. She highlighted the recent violence in Zawiyya and Surman...

In her UNSC briefing on 18 August, SRSG Hanna Tetteh warned that anti-migration narratives and misinformation continue to harm vulnerable...

On 18 August, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar arrived in Moscow and met Russian Defence Minister Andrey...

On 17 August, the US military attaché to Libya Colonel Dustin Dinola met with acting Chief of Staff for the Libyan Army Lieutenant General...

Italy and Greece have brought prosecutions against alleged people smugglers. On 14 August, the Greek Coast Guard said four minors, who said they...

On 12 August, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan arrived at Benghazi-Benina where he was officially received by Libyan National Army...

US Senior Advisor on Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos condemned the killing of Libyan National Army (LNA) Military Intelligence Chief Major...

There are indications that the UAE is actively trying to reestablish its supply lines to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan via Kufra, with an...

On 7 August, Director of the Libyan Intelligence Service (LIS; also ‘General Intelligence Service’) – according to the Benghazi-ruling and the...

On 6 August, the LNA-Chad joint-force faced operational difficulties when the Chadian army briefly seizing Libyan trade trucks from Kufra as a...

On 4 August, Minister of Interior Emad al-Trabelsi, Ministry of Defense Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Lieutenant General Abdul...

On 30 July, Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba officially visited Egypt and was received by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the coastal city El...

On 30 July, a meeting was held at the Operations HQ of Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI —the EU's Mediterranean naval mission—in Rome between the...

On 28 June, a delegation of US Congress members visited Libya, starting in Benghazi. The delegation was led by Congressman Austin Scott, along with...

On 26 July, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar arrived in N’Djamena, Chad and met with the Chadian President Mahamat Deby....

On 24 July, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar officially visited Ankara and met with Turkish Minister of...

On 21 July, the Libyan National Army (LNA) signed a border security deal with an unnamed private Turkish company to implement an advanced land...

Prominent Egyptian fugitive Mahmoud Mohamed Fathi Badr and his wife were detained by “Libyan authorities” in the late afternoon on 19 July at the...

On 17 July, Amnesty International said that ‘31 civil society organisations call on EU institutions and member states to urgently end their shameful...

On 17 July, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the 28-year sentence handed out...

On 16 July, Ministry of Defense Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Lieutenant General Abdul Salam Zoubi met in El Alamein, Egypt, the...

On 16 July, UN experts expressed serious concern over reports that more than 7,400 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, are victims of a...

On 15 July, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar travelled to Doha to offer his condolences. He was received by the Qatari Emir...

On 15 July, Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior (MoI) Emad Trabelsi met in Brussels with EU Commissioner for Home Affairs and...

On 15 July, Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba received Major General Ahmad Husni, the Director of Jordan’s...

On 14 July, a boat carrying about 60 migrants, including women and children, bound for European shores capsized near Bardaa Island, off the coastal...

On 14 July, the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled it has jurisdiction over the case of Khaled Al-Hishri, rejecting a challenge by his defence...

On 8 July, acting Libyan Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Salaheddin al-Namroush was received in Rome by the Chief of the Italian Defense...

On 7 July, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar received the AISE delegation led by AISE Director Lieutenant...

On 6 July, Presidential Council (PC) head Muhammed al-Menfi met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in Geneva, accompanied by the newly...

US Senior Advisor to President Trump on Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos held a flurry of meetings with Libyan stakeholders in Libya last...

On 5 July, Hussein al-Aib - in his capacity as Libyan Intelligence Service (LIS) chief - received Joseph Bugeja, head of the Maltese Intelligence...

On 5 July, Libyan National Army (LNA) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Khaled Haftar attended the joint military exercise ‘Al-Tarabut’...

On 4 July, PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba had a phone call from Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defense Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir....

European engagement with Libyan authorities on migration has continued over the last two weeks, with technical talks held in Brussels. On 2 July,...

On 30 June, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar met with Italian National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister Ambassador...

On 30 June, several international and Libyan media outlets reported about a joint investigative report by Lighthouse Reports, Evident Media (video...

From 30 June to 2 July, at the invitation of U.S. AFRICOM and the Ministry of Defense of Angola, Libyan Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General...

On 29 June, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Saddam Haftar at the State...

On 28 June, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar and Chief of Staff Khaled Haftar visited Cairo, meeting with the Egyptian...

On 25 June, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Humanitarian Assessment Mission announced the conclusion of its mission in Libya,...

On 25 June, Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Defence Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Lieutenant General Abdussalam...

On 24 June, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defense Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir received Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy...

On 23 June, EUNAVFOR Operation Irini Commander Rear Admiral (UH) Marco Casapieri welcomed a delegation of the Government of National Unity's (GNU)...

According to UNHCR, as of 31 March 2026, 110,908 refugees and asylum seekers were registered in Libya. From these, 91,494 are from Sudan. As of...

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, 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 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 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...

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 1 June, the UN in Libya expressed concern over ‘the renewed spread of misinformation, disinformation, and inflammatory rhetoric on social media...

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...