by Jason | Jul 22, 2020 | International actors
On 15 July, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump held a phone call in which they agreed to strengthen their cooperation on Libya. The same day, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said it had verified photographic evidence of landmines and improvised...
by Jason | Jul 22, 2020 | Libyan actors
On 16 July, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi met with a delegation of Libyan tribal chiefs in Cairo to discuss Egyptian intervention in Libya. During their meeting, Sisi told the chiefs that ‘Egypt will not stand still in the face of actions that pose a strong...
by Jason | Jul 16, 2020 | ISIS
On 9 July, the Government of National Accord Minister of Interior, Fathi Bashaagha, announced that a suspected ISIS member had been arrested in Zawiyya days prior while additional ISIS fighters had been captured in Abu Grein the week before. Bashaagha claimed that the...
by Jason | Jul 16, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 10 July, the Special Deterrence Force (Rada) arrested a suspected al-Qaida member in the Zawiyat al-Dahman area of Tripoli. No additional information as to the individual’s links to the group or their identity has been released at this...
by Jason | Jul 16, 2020 | International actors
On 9 July, the Egyptian military said it had carried out a large-scale military drill near the Libyan border called ‘Hasm 2020.’ Egypt’s state information service stated that ‘the exercise aims at eradicating elements of mercenaries, their gathering points, command...
by Jason | Jul 16, 2020 | Libyan actors
On 13 July, the House of Representatives (HoR) released a statement declaring that the Egyptian armed forces have the right to interfere in Libya to protect Libyan and Egyptian national security should they see an imminent threat, citing the ‘threats posed by the...
by Jason | Jul 8, 2020 | ISIS
On 5 July, Misrata’s Joint Security Operations Room (JSOR) captured alleged Islamic State (ISIS) fighter, Omar Dabbous, who is alleged to have entered Libya in 2016 as a refugee from Syria. According to the JSOR, Dabbous was captured after details emerged that he was...
by Jason | Jul 8, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 28 June, families of Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council (BRSC) fighters detained for fighting against the Libyan National Army (LNA) aligned forces in Benghazi protested outside the courts in Sidi Saleem. The protesters claimed that the BRSC fighters had been...
by Jason | Jul 8, 2020 | International actors
On 3 July, Turkish Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar, and Turkish Chief of Staff, General Yasar Guler, made an unannounced visit to Tripoli to meet with senior Government of National Accord (GNA) officials and discuss the Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) between Turkey...
by Jason | Jul 8, 2020 | Libyan actors
In the early hours of 5 July, Watiya airbase was attacked with several waves of aerial attacks. The alleged target was the al-Nadab barracks at the airbase, where Turkish personnel had set up their operations after the site was captured by Government of National...
