Our archive of incidents relating to Libyan actors in Libya’s security space, including armed group activity, state security operations and political developments.
The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) is calling for a renewed crackdown on black-market currency traders as the price of the dollar rises again. On 11...
On 8 May in the morning, heavy fighting broke out on the Refinery Road and in the vicinity of the Zawiyya refinery between the ‘joint security...
On 7 May, the Libyan National Army (LNA) General Staff directed the military police in Sebha to ban civilian off-road vehicles in the South. The...
After queues appeared at petrol stations in Libya again, the Brega Company said on 12 May that the congestion at fuel stations is not due to any...
On 5 May in the evening, there were armed clashes between militias loyal to Muhammed Bahroun aka al-Far and the Salem al-Latif armed group in the...
On 4 May, the Chairman of the eastern National Standing Committee to Monitoring the Situation of Prisons and Prisoners Ibrahim Bushnaf followed up...
On 2 May in the early hours, in Zawiyya, clashes between local militias spread rapidly across multiple districts, including densely populated...
On 1 May late in the evening, intense clashes started in Surman between militias using light and medium weapons, resulting in several casualties,...
On 1 May, the Supreme Council of Sufism in Libya announced that the body of 64 year old Omar Aqila al Farsi al Agouri was found in Benghazi after he...
On 30 April, Ahmed Aboud from Zawiyya was killed by gunmen in Zawiyya. On 1 May, a young man named Muhammad Kamal Abu Sabi’a was shot and killed in...
This week, the position of Salahadeen al-Namroush as West Coast Military District Commander appears to have been strengthened through various...
On 28 April, 10-year-old Asmar Fathallah Mohammed Al-Awami was killed and his mother was seriously injured when a hand grenade exploded inside a...
On 27 April, early in the morning, armed clashes broke out in the Al-Zaramqa area of Ajilat in western Libya between an armed group linked to...
On 27 April, the Attorney General said that it is pursuing a criminal gang involved in sending migrants from the shores of Tubruq to the northern...
On 26 April, the group known as the South Liberation Operations Room (SLOR) announced the launch of operations against Libyan National Army (LNA)...
On 25 April, residents of Qasr al-Akhiyar issued a video statement condemning the killing of a young man (Ibrahim Abdel Salam Sassi) on 17 April by...
In her UN Security Council briefing on 22 April, SRSG Hanna Tetteh noted that although no violations of the 2020 ceasefire agreement were recorded,...
On 20 April, GECOL employees protested in front of the PM’s Offices in Tripoli demanding the payment of their salaries and financial entitlements...
On 19 April, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar, accompanied by Government of National Stability (GNS) PM Osama Hammad,...
On 17 April, there was a shootout in Kufra which injured a Zwai man and a Tebu man and resulted in two vehicles being burned. While the motives...
On 16 April, there were reports that Presidential Council (PC) head Muhammed al-Menfi had fired Lieutenant General Salaheddin al-Namroush from his...
On 13 April, war remnants exploded at a farm on the outskirts of the city of Ajilat resulting in the death of one man, Ramadan Hassan Al-Waloul,...
On 15 April, Libyan and Egyptian officials held talks in Tripoli on mechanisms for the voluntary repatriation of undocumented Egyptian migrants from...
On 15 April, the Misrata branch of the Internal Security Agency summoned the mukhtars (local leaders) of neighborhoods in the city of Tawergha and...
Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Defense Undersecretary for Regions and Military Affairs Abdussalam al-Zoubi and Libyan National Army...
Libyan reactions to Exercise Flintlock 2026, US AFRICOM’s annual special forces exercise, have been mixed, with some Tripoli and Misratan groups...
On 14 April, in the morning, armed skirmishes took place between the Subul al-Salam Brigade and tobacco traffickers in the Kufra desert
On 12 April, Ahmed al-Zukairi, a close confident of Salem al-Latif, and his brother were kidnapped by militias of al-Far. Salem al-Latif is a local...
On 9 April, the Libyan National Army (LNA) issued a sharp warning against any attempt to revive the South Liberation Operations Room (SLOR), an...
On 7 April, Ibrahim al‑Madani, a Zintani senior advisor to the Presidential Council, survived an apparent assassination attempt after his vehicle...
On 6 April, Bashir al-Sheikh, former spokesperson of Fezzan Anger group and a Tuareg from Ghat, announced he had joined the South Liberation...
In the UN Secretary-General’s Report on Libya, published on 6 April, Antonio Gutress said he is ‘deeply concerned by the situation of migrants and...
"On 5 April, it was reported that Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander (and heir apparent to his father Khalifa Haftar) Saddam Haftar has...
On 31 March, Presidential Council (PC) head Muhammed al-Menfi held an extensive meeting that included the Libyan Army Chief of Staff Salahadeen...
On 30 March, al-Menfi met with the Director of Military Intelligence and Commander of the 444 Combat Brigade, Mahmoud Hamza, as part of monitoring...
On 28 March, clashes took place in Ghariyan (south-west of Tripoli in the Nafousa Mountains) between members of the 444 Combat Brigade and the 10th...
On 26 March late in the evening, a militia led by Nouri al-Raitimi, who is affiliated with the 103rd Infantry Battalion aka al-Silaa, clashed in...
On 25 March, UNSMIL called for the immediate release of political activist Al-Mahdi Abdul-Ati, who was arbitrarily arrested and detained in Misrata...
Late on 24 March, the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Ministry of Interior confirmed that it had instructed the Criminal Investigations...
On 23 March, a brawl erupted on Tripoli's Corniche between groups of Libyan teenagers and migrants who were attending a large annual Eid celebration...
On 22 March, as part of the Eid occasion, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar delivered a speech on the sidelines of a meeting with...
On 22 March, clashes broke out in Zawiyya, centred in the Dila-Qamouda area. Local human rights organizations confirmed at least one fatality and...
On 21 March late at night, unknown assailants reportedly blew up Zawiat Madani ( a Sufi shrine) in Misrata.
On 20 March, the family of Ehab Shamsaddin Nasser reported to the NIHRL that Nasser had been kidnapped from in front of his residential building in...
On 18 March, Grand Mufti al‑Sadiq al‑Ghariani urged Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba to move to retake control of Mitiga Airport and its prison,...
On 18 March, reports indicated that the Presidential Council (PC), in its capacity as the Supreme Commander of the Libyan Army, officially promoted...
On 18 March in the evening, the political activist al-Mahdi Abu al‑Qasim Abdel‑Ati was abducted by an unidentified armed group in Misrata. There...
On 17 March, a fire hit the pipeline supplying Zawiyya refinery, the causes of which were unknown. The pipeline was shut down, and maintenance teams...
On 16 March, bad weather, strong winds and heavy rain hit northwestern Libya, with severe flooding occurring in many places, with many roads...
On 14 March, the GNS Prime Minister Osama Hammad issued a decree establishing the Security Screening and Electronic Detection Agency. The agency...
On 15 March, families of detainees held at the Mitiga Reform and Rehabilitation Institution in Tripoli staged a protest outside the offices of the...
On 13 March, Ayman Al-Abdali, son of the murdered activist and lawyer Hanan Al-Barasi, which he published yesterday evening, Friday. In it, he...
On 11 March, the South Liberation Operations Room (SLOR) commander, Mohamed Warduko, gave a 5-minute video statement in which he claimed that his...
On 11 March, Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba’s Financial Advisor and Minister of Transport Muhammed al-Shahoubi held an extensive meeting in...
On 11 March, Libyan National Army (LNA) Deputy Commander Saddam Haftar met with the family of House of Representatives (HoR) member Ibrahim...
On 10 March, reports circulated on Egyptian social media indicate that around 20 Egyptian workers were detained by forces affiliated with Khalifa...
On 10 March, Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior (MoI) EmadTrabelsi held an Iftar gathering with political and security leaders...
Despite the engagement of the Government of National Unity (GNU) in Zawiyya, there were several small-scale protests in Zawiyya this week against...
On 10 March, the Presidential Office of the Libyan Tribal Union released a statement, expressing deep concern and strong condemnation over the...
On 9 March, the Regional Security Directorate Support Device, a security unit of the GNU Interior Ministry, announced the discovery of a new mass...
On 9 March, the Regional Security Directorate Support Agency, a security unit of the Government of National Unity (GNU) Interior Ministry, announced...
On 9 March, PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba hosted a delegation of elders, notables, municipal leaders and militia leaders from Wershefana. Among the...
On 8 March, the head of the Libyan Illegal Migration Control Agency, Salah Mahmoud Al Khafifi, received the Consul General of Chad, Hassan Al...
On 8 March, the National Institution for Human Rights in Libya (NIHRL) called on authorities to clarify the fate of an army officer, Col Abdulrahman...
On 7 March, a young man named Ali Ahmed Saeed from the Al-Hawamed area in Zawiyya was killed, and his companions were injured, after being shot by...
On 5 March, football player Ahmed Raqba said he had suffered a physical and verbal assault in Benghazi at the hands of several criminals in the...
On 5 March, the body of a young man named Jamal Ashour Moulmi Al-Tabawi was found by his family inside the morgue refrigerator at Sebha General...
On 5 March, the Office of the Attorney General announced the initial findings of ongoing investigations in the Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi murder case....
On 5 March, Anwar Sawan, a member of the Misrata Council of Elders, said that rebelling against the Dabaiba government is a religious duty. The next...
On 4 March, a young man named Ahmed Koushi Al-Tabawi was arbitrarily arrested in the Market Street area in the centre of Al-Kufra city by members of...
PM Abdul Hameed Dabaiba has been using the fast break in Ramadan for invitations to various militia leaders and other key actors from northern...
On 4 March, a few dozen people protested in Zawiyya against the Dabaiba government and the current political establishment. They demanded the...
On 28 February, the National Institution for Human Rights in Libya (NIHRL) urged the immediate release of people detained during the recent peaceful...
On 28 February, Presidential Council head Mohamed al-Menfi received an international team ‘comprised of elite jurists and specialized experts’, as...
On 27 February in the evening after the last Ramadan prayer, protesters gathered in central Tripoli, at first at Algeria Square and later on also at...
On 26 February, the Attorney General’s Office announced it has filed a criminal case against an individual from a criminal organization whose...
On 25 February, Colonel Mustafa al-Har, director of the Counter-Terrorism and Subversive Activities Office in Libya's central region (based in...
On 24 February in the evening and during the night, there were several street protests in Zawiyya. Several streets were closed while just a few...
On 19 February, the Military Prosecutor ordered an investigation into Milad al-Sanki al-Suwai, commander of the General Intelligence Service (GIS)...
On 19 February in the late evening, two young men were killed in a hail of bullets when an armed group opened fire on a car on Refinery Road in...
On 17 February, Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar announced the launch of the ‘2030 Vision for the Development of...
On 15 February, speaking to security directors from the western and central regions, Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior Emad...
On 13 February, reports indicated that Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar had ordered the dissolution of the Subul al-Salam...
On 12 February, Abrik al-Mazeg al‑Zwai, a leading member of the former Ajdabiya Revolutionary Shura Council which had close links to various...
On 12 February, Munir al-Suwaih, the Commander of the Libyan Army's 6th Force, was kidnapped in al-Serraj near the Hayis Market probably by members...
On 10 February, the Emergency and Ambulance Service branch in Kufra announced the recovery of the bodies of the victims of an ambulance plane that...
On 10 February, the Government of National Unity's (GNU) Ministry of Interior reported the theft of 8 million dinars from Al-Aman Bank near the...
On 3 February, early in the afternoon, four unidentified gunmen reportedly disabled the surveillance cameras at Saif Al-Islam al-Qadhafi’s residence...
On 3 February in the afternoon, four unidentified gunmen disabled the surveillance cameras at Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi's residence in Zintan before...
On 3 February, a large-scale security operation carried out in Sebha led to the arrest of more than 2,000 irregular migrants of various...
On 31 January, in the early hours, armed men launched a simultaneous attack on three Libyan border posts: the Al-Toum border crossing, the Wadi...
On 30 January in the morning, several military leaders of the West Coast Military District inspected the 103rd Infantry Battalion as part of efforts...
On 22 January, the Director of the Tripoli Branch of the Judicial Police Major General Faraj Juma’a al‑Mabrouk was severely wounded in a targeted...
On 22 January, the 55th Warshifana Battalion, led by Muammar al-Dhawi, declared a state of alert after credible information reached him that the...
Kufra airport has been shut down for one month from 19 January, ostensibly to carry out comprehensive maintenance works on the runway. However, the...
On 18 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) security forces said they had freed more than 200 migrants from a secret underground prison in Kufra, in...
Since 17 January, a desert low-pressure system has been affecting the city of Benghazi and eastern Libyan cities, with a noticeable increase in wind...
On 15 January, the eastern Internal Security Agency (ISA) said that it had uncovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 21 people of various...
On 13 January in the late afternoon, Muhammed al-Kabou - brother of the infamous Zawiyya militia leader Abdul Raouf al-Kabou aka Zaza and himself a...
Fuel shortages have worsened significantly in and around Tripoli this week, with lengthy queues reforming at petrol stations across the city. The...