ISIS in action
Tracking developments of ISIS activity and the anti-ISIS coalition in Libya.
4 – 10 November: No relevant developments.
No relevant developments.
28 October – 3 November: No relevant developments.
No relevant developments.
21 – 27 October: No relevant developments.
No relevant developments.
14 –20 October: ISIS suspects arrested in Khoms and Tripoli
On 18 October, the GNA Counter-Terrorism Force Commander, al-Zein, announced that four people had been arrested for connections to a terrorism group. On 14 October, it was reported that an ISIS leader being held in Qarnadah prison had died.
7 –13 October: No relevant developments.
No relevant developments.
30 September – 6 October: GNA capture five alleged ISIS members
On 30 September, the GNA MoD’s Joint Force captured 5 alleged ISIS members near the Tunisian border. On 1 October, the LNA spokesperson, Mismari, released additional details on the identities of the ISIS leaders killed in Sebha in mid-September.
23 – 29 September: Alleged assassination attempt by ISIS
On 24 September Saleh, commander of the Khalid Bin Walid Brigade, survived an assassination attempt in the Nassriya district of Sebha. On 23 September, LNA-Spokesperson, Mismari, declared that the leader of ISIS in North Africa, Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi, was killed in the LNA raid in Sebha one-week prior.
16 – 22 September: LNA arrests ISIS member in Ghadduwah
On 21 September, the LNA claimed that it had arrested an ISIS member in the town of Ghadduwah. On 15 September, the LNA conducted a raid against an ISIS cell in Sebha. According to a press briefing by LNA spokesperson Ahmed Mismari, the raid resulted in clashes that lasted approximately 7 hours and in which 9 ISIS members were killed.
9 – 15 September: LNA undertakes raid on ISIS in Sebha
On 14-15 September, the LNA undertook an overnight raid on an alleged ISIS cell in the Abd al-Kafi neighbourhood of Sebha in southern Libya.