Our archive of incidents relating to Libyan actors in Libya’s security space, including armed group activity, state security operations and political developments.
On 30 October, Presidential Council (PC) Deputy Abdullah al-Lafi accompanied by Libyan Army Deputy Chief of Staff (CoS) Salaheddin al-Namroush...
On 30 October, Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi and the head of the MoI’s Border Guard ordered the intensification of desert patrols to monitor...
On 30 October, Saddam Khalifa Haftar, Chief of Staff of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Ground Forces, met with the commanders of the military...
On 24 October, a 444 Brigade patrol clashed in the vicinity of al-Hamadah al-Hamra oilfields with the local Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG),...
On 24 October, in Yefren (a town in the Nafousa mountains) a large civilian demonstration called on all armed formations from other towns to leave...
On 22 October, the Libyan NGO Libya Crime Watch (LCW) noted that journalist Ikram Rajab was released - along with her parents who had been arrested...
On 20 October, Government of Nationaly Unity (GNU) Deputy Minister of Defence Abdussalam Zoubi and Libyan Army Chief of Staff (CoS) Muhammed...
On 7 October, Zintani militia leader al-Ajami al-Atiri was arrested by local Internal Security Agency (ISA) agents at the Wazin - Dehiba border...
On 6 October, the National Accord Bloc in the High State Council (HSC) issued a statement condemning the trial of HSC member Hassan Jaballah in a...
On 6 October, the Supreme Council of Zintani Revolutionaries threatened to shut down the Riyayna pipeline valve (which would prevent oil from...
On 2 October, it was revealed that Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba, in his capacity as Minister of Defense, ordered the redeployment of the 54th...
On 27 September, the Attorney General announced an arrest warrant for three members of the Internal Security Agency (ISA) in Tripoli for their...
On 27 September, after a longer investigation, the Attorney General initiated criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of the murder of two...
On 27 September, Abdul Halim Daboub, head of the Operations and Judicial Security Department in Zawiyya, was shot and wounded in an assassination...
On 26 September, the Attorney General initiated criminal proceedings against the perpetrators of an incident of torture that resulted in the death...
On 18 September, Libyan journalist Ikram Rajab was arbitrarily arrested by the Internal Security Agency (ISA) from her house in Benghazi. Libyan...
On 17 September, UNHCR released an estimation that as of 15 September 2024 over 97,000 Sudanese refugees have arrived in Libya since April 2023....
On 14 and 15 September, heavy rains in Libya’s southern city of Sebha caused significant damage to infrastructure and people, with local authorities...
On 12 September in the evening, elements of the 52nd Brigade (from Zawiyya, led by Mahmoud Bin Rajab) entered Camp 27, which is a base of the 55th...
On 10 September, Amnesty International published a report calling for the Internal Security Agency (ISA) in eastern Libya to be held accountable for...
On 5 September, on the sidelines of a reconstruction conference in Sebha, an important ceremony took place marking the ‘comprehensive...
On 4 September, after the Attorney General issued an arrest warrant addressed to the Minister of Interior (MoI) against Muhammed al-Baroun aka...
During the night of 4-5 September, severe clashes took place in Khoms near the power station in the area of Souq al-Khamis, about 7 km southeast of...
The Attorney General’s Office issued arrest warrants over the murder of the commander of the Libyan Naval Academy, Abdurrahman Milad aka al-Bija, on...
On 1 September, unidentified gunmen assassinated Abdurrahman Milad, alias al-Bija, the head of Libya's coast guard and naval academy, as well as...
On 31 August, the office of the Attorney General said that the General Directorate of Security Operations supported by the LNA - GNS MoI Joint Force...
On 30 August, the Human Rights Service of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the UN Human Rights Office published a report which describes...
On 27 August, Western Coast Military District Commander and Libyan Army Deputy CoS Salaheddin al-Namroush threatened to forcibly clear the roadblock...
On 27 August, the Supreme Committee for Security Arrangements headed by Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi said...
On 26 August, Government of National Stability (GNS) PM Osama Hammad declared a state of force majeure and instructed the halting of all oil...
On 25 August, in the morning, the Presidential Council (PC) handover committee arrived at the HQ of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) to find the...
On 25 August, the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) held a meeting at its HQ in the Ouagadougou complex in Sirte, which was also attended by...
On 23 August, a meeting between Minister of Interior Emad Trabelsi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense Abdussalam Zoubi, Kara, Mukhtar...
On 22 August, militias from Zuwara blocked the road to the Ras Ajdir border crossing near Abu Kammash from nightfall. That same evening, the Zuwara...
A spokesperson for the Libyan National Army (LNA) has explained that security on the south-western border with Algeria and Niger in the Salvador...
On 20 August, the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) commander Abdurraouf Kara declared that the Presidential Council's (PC) decision to replace...
On 18 August, in the morning, the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) issued a statement in which it denounced the ‘kidnapping of the Director of the...
On 18 August, Presidential Council head Muhammed al-Menfi held a meeting at the 111 th Brigade HQ in Tripoli with the Chiefs of Staff, the...
On 15 August, a number of Misrata revolutionary fighters announced the reactivation of the Misrata Military Council and the formation of a higher...
On 15 August, the 444 Brigade announced that one of its detachments distributed more than 250,000 litres of fuel seized from smugglers in the middle...
On 14 August, the Ambulance and Emergency Department declared an emergency for all its services in the south of Libya (Fezzan and Kufra) due to...
On 9 August in the morning, an assassination attempt was made on Bashir Khalaf Allah (aka al-Bugra), the commander of the Rahbat al-Daraa Brigade,...
On 9 August the High State Council (HSC) condemned ‘in the strongest terms’ an attempt to kidnap HSC member Nizar Kawan after he left the voting...
On 7 August, the Libyan National Army (LNA) started to deploy troops on a larger scale via Sirte to the Fezzan region (southwestern Libya). The LNA...
On 7 August, the Attorney General (AG) ordered the detention of the acting Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Oil and the Director of...
At midday on 6 August, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced ‘the start of a partial reduction in production from the Sharara field due to...
On 30 July, the 17th Border Guard Battalion (under the command of Muhammed Abdul Nabi and linked to Zintani commander Osama Juwaili) moved troops...
There has been a security campaign to crack down on illegal migration in the eastern region in recent days. On 30 July, the Government of National...
On 28 July, the Attorney General said that the Derna Criminal Court has issued a verdict convicting twelve officials responsible for managing the...
On 25 July, the Attorney General’s Office announced an investigation into two Tunisians for possessing weapons, one of whom was killed. The...
On 23 July, Presidential Council Deputy Abdullah al-Lafi, Libyan Army Deputy Chief of Staff (CoS) Salaheddin al-Namroush and several other senior...
On 23 July, a skirmish took place in al-Shuwayrif between the 444 Brigade and the 128th Battalion of the Libyan National Army (LNA). The LNA’s...
On 22 July, the 444 Brigade announced that all smuggling routes to the South in the centre of the country had been interrupted. At the same time,...
On 20 July, a clash took place in Abu Kammash (the last town right before the border) in the early evening between militias from Zuwara and forces...
Prime Minister (and Minister of Defence) Abdul Hameed Dabaiba has appointed Abdussalam al-Zoubi as Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defence. Zoubi...
On 17 July, the road between Sabratha and al-Ajaylat was temporarily closed in the late afternoon after clashes between militias from the two towns...
On 17 July, the headquarters of the Stability Support Agency (SSA) in Zawiyya - Abu Sora was stormed and occupied by militias of Muhammed al-Baroun...
On 17 July, Attorney General al-Sadiq al-Sour received approval from Director of the Libyan General Intelligence Service (GIS) Hussein al-Aib to...
On 16 July, heavy fighting between Bashir al-Bugra's Rahbat al-Daraa Brigade and the Martyr Sabria Brigade took place in Tajoura. Heavy infantry...
On 15 July, the Attorney General’s Office announced the imprisonment of the commercial director of Ghadames Airlines pending investigation into the...
On the afternoon of 11 July, journalist Ahmed al-Senussi - news show host at Al Wasat TV and editorin-chief of the online newspaper Sada - was...
On 10 July, a member of Muhammed al-Baroun aka al-Far’s militia was kidnapped by the militia of Muhammad Kashlaf aka al-Qasseb, and a member of...
On 8 July, in the centre of Misrata, political activist Moatassim Billah al-Araibi and his companion Muhammed Ishtewi were abducted by unidentified...
The US Charge d’Affaires Jeremy Berndt and the US Defence Attache also with the Chief of Staff (CoS) of the Libyan Army Muhammed al-Haddad and...
On 5 July, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) and IOM published a report called ‘Abuse, protection and justice along...
On 5 July, the National Consensus Bloc in the High State Council (HSC) condemned an attempted attack on its member, Abdussalam al-Safrani, and...
On 2 July, the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) arrested two members of the Libyan General Intelligence Service in Tripoli who were allegedly...
On 1 July in the morning, the Ras Ajdir border crossing was reopened for general border traffic by Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of...
On 29 June, a reconciliation meeting was held between the 444 Brigade and the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) in their stronghold of Souq al-Jumaa...
On 28 June in the late afternoon, a battle took place in the western part of Crown Prince Street (Wali al-Ahed Street in the south of Tripoli)...
During the night of 27-28 June, a convoy of militias belonging to Muhammed al-Baroun aka al-Far was fired upon in Sabratha by local militias. No...
On 26 June, a convoy of the 55th (Wershefana) Brigade (led by Muammer al-Dhawi) was shot at with small arms fire by local militias while passing...
The opening of the Ras Ajdir border crossing, which was initially slated to take place on the morning of 23 June, then was pushed to the 24th was...
In the early morning hours of 18 June, a young man was murdered in the centre of Zawiya. On June 18 and 19, two more young men were reported...
On 17 June, Abdel Bare Abu Aouba was killed in Zawiyya in front of his house after he was shot at by masked assailants.
On 13 June, a member of Muhammar al-Dhawi's 55th (Wershefana) Brigade was kidnapped and arrested by Tripoli militias near the Dehiba border crossing...
On 12 June, the Libyan Attorney General said that the Tripoli Criminal Court had sentenced three people smugglers who coordinated illegal...
The Government of National Stability (GNS) and eastern anti-immigration agencies are increasing their attention on, and warnings about, the Sudanese...
On 11 June, Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba met with Libyan Army Chief of Staff (CoS) Muhammed al-Haddad and various directors and officials...
On 8 June, during the arrest of Saddam al-Nadhouri - a wanted felon - by the Misrata Joint Force, Nadhouri was shot and seriously wounded after...
Anger and demands for information and accountability over the disappearance of House of Representatives (HoR) member Ibrahim al-Darsi have continued...
On 5 June, Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba and Libyan Army Chief of Staff (CoS) Muhammed al-Haddad negotiated with representatives of Operation...
On 5 June, the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) released the former deputy commander of the Tripoli Revolutionary Brigade (TRB) Adham Nassouf and a...
On 4 June, Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba discussed the security situation in western Libya, including Ras Ajdir, in a meeting with the mayors...
On the evening of 2 June, there were violent clashes in Zawiyya between rival militias following the arrest of notorious militia leader and smuggler...
On 29 May, following an attack on the Khoms football fan bus in Tajoura, Minister of Interior (MoI) Emad Trabelsi instructed the Security...
On 27 May, the 101st Infantry Battalion of the Libyan National Army (LNA) attacked the HQ of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Sebha...
On 27 May, there were protests in al-Bayda in eastern Libya against Haftar, with some protestors pulling down his pictures, following an attack on...
On 27 May, former members of the Operation Volcano of Rage (Burkan al-Ghadab) blocked - once again - the Dafniya Gate in the west of Misrata,...
As of 24 May, nine days since the newly-formed Security Emergency Room in Kufra launched its security information system, around 8,000 refugees from...
On 18 May in the evening, a Nobles & Elders delegation from al-Jamail and Raqdalin held a meeting in Zawiyya with Muhammed al-Baroun (aka al-Far) in...
On 17 May, reports emerged that HoR member Ibrahim al-Dirsi had been abducted in Benghazi. Government of National Stability (GNS) Prime Minister...
On 17 May, five people, four young men and one woman, were abducted from their homes in Zawiyya – al-Sayyida al-Zeinab (southeast of the city...
On 16 May, a parade was held in Benghazi-Benina under tight security in the presence of Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar, House...
On 15 May, Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar ordered the establishment of a military city for training and security science,...
On 14 May, three members of the 444 Brigade and ‘a group’ of drug smugglers were killed in a battle between the two sides lasting several hours. It...
On 12 May, the Attorney General ordered the arrest of the Director General of the Customs Authority and the head of customs at Misrata International...
On 8 May, Libyan Army Deputy Chief of Staff (CoS) Salaheddin al-Namroush arrived in al-Jamail and promised in a meeting with local representatives...
On 6 and 7 May, protestors in al-Jamail, Raqdalin, Zaltan and al-Assah – all towns in the far north-west of Libya close to Zuwara and the Tunisian...
On 2 May, a bomb was discovered in Zawiyya in the immediate vicinity of the Sabiriya Police Station. The professionally-made Improvised Explosive...