Libyan actors
Tracking developments of Libyan Actors in Libya’s security space including armed group activity, state security operations and political activities pertaining to Libya’s security.
Militias vie for control of External Security Agency building in Tripoli
On 1 June, clashes broke out between forces aligned with Ayoub Abu Ras, including members of the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade (TRB) and the Presidential Guard, and those aligned with Osama Najim, including members of the Judicial Guard under control of the Special...
Tensions in the South related to clashes on the Libya-Chadian border
On 30 May, Chad’s Minister of Defence, General Daoud Yaya Brahim, reported that approximately 100 people have been killed and 40 injured during clashes in the Kouri Bougoudi gold mining area on the Chadian-Libyan border. Skirmishes in Kouri Bougoudi first broke out on...
LNA arrests ISIS affiliates in Qatrun
On 29 May, the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) Southern Operations Room announced that it had launched a military campaign, ‘Operation One Day’, targeting ISIS operatives in southern Libya. According to the LNA, the operation successfully destroyed a number of ISIS...
Nawasi clashes with SSA
On 28 May, clashes briefly broke out between the Nawasi Brigade and elements of Abdul Ghani al-Kikli’s (Ghinaywa) Stability and Support Apparatus (SSA) in Tripoli’s Zawiyyat al-Dahmani neighbourhood. At least one Nawasi Brigade fighter was reportedly killed, and light...
UN Security Council meeting on Libya
On 26 May, the UN Security Council (UNSC) held a briefing on Libya where the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, expressed concern that ‘the protracted political impasse is having an increasingly negative impact on...
Tribal forces in southern Libya seeking to form anti-LNA coalition
Reports have emerged that Ali Kanna, a Tuareg military commander, is attempting to build an anti-Libyan National Army (LNA) armed group to remove the LNA from the Fezzan. On 26 May, a new group called the ‘Armed People's Force’ was created, nominally under the command...
Menfi reinstates Qaddour as Deputy Head of Intelligence Services
On 25 May, the Head of the Presidential Council (PC), Muhammed al-Menfi, issued a decision (PC Resolution No. 588 of 2022) reinstating the Commander of the Nawasi Brigade Mustafa Qaddour, in his position of Deputy Head of the Libyan Intelligence Service (LIS) for...
Workshop on DDR launches in Spain, attended by UN, EU, GNU, and PC
On 23 May, a two-day workshop began on ‘International Ways to Support the Disarmament, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) Programme for Libya and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya’ in Toledo, Spain. The workshop was attended by the Government of National...
Dabaiba suspends 166 Brigade operations in al-Shuwayrif
On 21 May, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister, Abdul Hameed Dabaiba, issued a directive to the 166 Brigade suspending their operations in the al-Shuwayrif area (located between Tripoli and Sebha in the South) and instructing their members to return...