by Client Client | Aug 12, 2021 | International actors
In the last week, Bloomberg published an article citing informed sources to claim that Russia is working to have Saif al-Islam Qadhafi elected as President of Libya in the elections scheduled for 24 December this year. The report claimed that Russia was applying...
by Client Client | Aug 11, 2021 | ISIS
On 11 August, the Spokesperson for the Libyan National Army (LNA) Ahmed al-Mismari announced that the LNA had arrested a suspected ISIS operative of Sudanese origin during a security operation near Qatrun in south-western Libya. The statement claimed that LNA forces...
by Client Client | Aug 11, 2021 | ISIS
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.
by Client Client | Aug 11, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 11 August, the GNU Military Prosecutor, Mohammed Gharouda’s, order for Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi, the son of the former dictator Muammar al-Qadhafi, to be arrested circulated on social media having been issued on 5 August.The warrant appeared to refer to case...
by Client Client | Aug 11, 2021 | International actors
On 11 August, the American Ambassador and Special Envoy to Libya, Richard Norland, met in Cairo with Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar. The US embassy said on Twitter that the visit was ‘part of US efforts to support Libyan parliamentary and...
by Client Client | Aug 11, 2021 | International actors
On 11 August, the BBC published an exposé on the presence of the Wagner group in Libya following the BBC’s discovery of a tablet left behind by an operative. According to the report, documents, including a ‘shopping list’ of weapons and equipment given to the BBC by a...
by Client Client | Aug 9, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 9 August, the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Khalifa Haftar, made a series of significant appointments, reshuffling the LNA General Command and its organisation.Former Prime Minister of the eastern-based Interim Government, Abdullah al-Thinni, was...
by Client Client | Aug 7, 2021 | International actors
On 7 August, the Syrian news network Suwayda 24 reported that a young man from As-Suwayda (southwestern Syria) was killed in Libya, alongside a Russian Wagner operative, after a landmine exploded in a military vehicle on 5 August. Several other Syrian fighters were...
by Client Client | Aug 7, 2021 | International actors
On 7 August, Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI signed a working arrangement with the European Union Border Assistance Mission in Libya (EUBAM Libya). The agreement establishes effective cooperation between Operation IRINI and EUBAM in order to ‘strengthen their respective...
by Client Client | Aug 4, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 4 August, the 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) issued a statement condemning ‘hostile acts’ aiming to undermine stability along the Sirte-Misrata coastal road. The statement was apparently in response to an incident in which football fans laid down images of...
