by Client Client | Aug 24, 2023 | ISIS
On 24 August, Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba announced that a security operation carried out by the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) – formally now known as the ‘Deterrence Apparatus for Combatting Organized Crime and Terrorism’...
by Client Client | Aug 22, 2023 | International actors
On 22 August, a Russian military delegation led by Deputy Minister of Defense Yunus-bek Yevkurov arrived in Benghazi at the invitation of Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar. Upon his arrival at Benina airport, he was received by the Director of the...
by Client Client | Aug 22, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 22 August, Libyan National Army (LNA) spokesman Ahmed al-Mismari confirmed Chadian airstrikes on the Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad (FACT) targets in southern Libya. He said that any incursion by Chadian forces into Libyan territory requires the...
by Client Client | Aug 22, 2023 | International actors
In his address to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 22 August, UN Special Envoy to Libya Abdoulaye Bathily said the recent clashes in Tripoli between the 444 Brigade and the Special Deterrence Forces (Rada) underlined the absence of command and control in...
by Client Client | Aug 18, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 18 August, Rada and the 444 Brigade withdrew most of their fighters from the front lines during the day. The withdrawal was supervised by the Ministry of Interior, the Stability Support Apparatus (SSA), and the 111th Brigade. Prisoners and the bodies of those...
by Client Client | Aug 18, 2023 | International actors
On 18 August, the Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad (FACT) published a statement in which it claimed that the Chadian army had carried out an aerial bombardment on its base in Libya, killing three people and injuring another four. It also claimed that...
by Client Client | Aug 15, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 15 August, media outlets and social media posts reported that Turkey had leased the port of Khoms for 99 years and that the Turkish Armed Forces would use it as a base in the Mediterranean. It is not entirely clear if the message was posted first by Turkish social...
by Client Client | Aug 15, 2023 | Libyan actors
After the abduction of the 444 Brigade commander Mahmoud Hamza by Aburraouf Kara’s Rada Force on 14 August, fighting continued between those militias and their allies in Tripoli until late in the evening on 15 August. The main battle areas were along the line Tripoli...
by Client Client | Aug 15, 2023 | International actors
On 15 August, as the fighting intensified in Tripoli after the commander of the 444 Brigade, Mahmoud Hamza, was arrested by the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) at Mitiga Airport, condemnations and calls for peace began to roll in from key international and political...
by Client Client | Aug 14, 2023 | Libyan actors
On 14 August, Mahmoud Hamza, the commander of the 444 Brigade, was arrested by the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) at Mitiga Airport while he was on his way to Misrata for a Graduation Ceremony. He was reportedly travelling together with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid...
