ISIS in action
Tracking developments of ISIS activity and the anti-ISIS coalition in Libya.
ISIS member involved in the Corinthia hotel attack captured
On 14 October, the Government of National Unity’s (GNU) Internal Security Agency announced that it had captured Omar Bashir Omar Izadeen, an ISIS operative of Tunisian nationality who had assisted in facilitating the terrorist attack on the Corinthia Hotel in 2015. In...
Arrested Egyptian in Bani Walid accused of links to ISIS
On 14 October, the Bani Walid Criminal Security Department (CID) arrested an Egyptian national with links to ISIS and the group's activities in Sirte. According to reports the man was originally arrested for fraud, with his links to the jihadi group uncovered after...
Reports of ISIS-claimed attack on LNA checkpoint south of Sebha
On 27 September, ISIS reportedly claimed to have perpetrated an assault on a Libyan National Army (LNA) checkpoint south of Sebha. According to initial reports there were no injuries but the specific details of the incident remain unclear at this time. The LNA is yet...
Misratan Joint Operations Force arrests senior ISIS operative
On 7 September, the Misratan Joint Operations Force announced it had arrested a senior ISIS operative, Embark al-Khazm, in Bani Walid. The Joint Operations Force stated that the arrest was carried out upon the orders of the Attorney General. GNU Prime Minister Abdul...
LNA conducts security operation against ISIS in Murzuq
On 6 September, the Libyan National Army’s 106th Brigade (Storm Brigade) arretsed a number of suspected ISIS operatives during a security operation in Murzuq.
Familes of ISIS nationals repatriated to Nigeria
On 31 August, reports surfaced that 22 relatives of deceased ISIS suspects (killed in Libya) had been repatriated to Nigeria.
Suspected ISIS attack on LNA forces in Zillah
On 22 August, the Libyan National Army (LNA) aligned 128 Brigade was attacked by a suicide bomber identified as a Sudanese national at the Zillah gate/Zillah-Waddan road checkpoint near Jufra, 470 km south west of Tripoli. According to sources, the man drove the car...
UN Office of Counter-Terrorism: ISIS situation in the Sahel ‘could be aggravated by Libya’
On 19 August, Vladimir Voronkov, the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, issued a report on the threat posed by ISIS, stating that ISIS’ West Africa affiliate (Islamic State's West Africa Province) could receive foreign fighters...
ISIS members to be deported from Libya to their country of origin
On 11 August, the Government of National Unity’s Minister of Justice announced that 100 suspected ISIS operatives from Africa and the Middle East would be deported to their countries of origin.