by Jason | Feb 12, 2020 | ISIS
Last week, prosecutor Penny told British Court that the brother of Salman Abedi, Hashem Abedi, is equally guilty of murdering the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena Attack. Salman Abedi was a 22-year-old Briton born to Libyan parents, who detonated his bomb at...
by Jason | Feb 12, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 10 February, a bombing targeted the Ascending General School in the Abu Issa area of Tripoli. The explosion resulting in the injury of at least three students. It is unclear who carried out the attack.
by Jason | Feb 12, 2020 | International actors
On 5 February, the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sabri Boukadoum, arrived in Benghazi and met with the head of Libya’s parallel eastern Libya government, Abdullah al-Thinni, and the eastern Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hadi al-Huwaiq, to discuss the...
by Jason | Feb 12, 2020 | Libyan actors
Throughout the last week there have been limited and sporadic clashes on the southern Tripoli frontlines despite the nominal truce between the Government of National Accord (GNA) aligned forces and the Libyan National Army (LNA) forces remaining in place. LNA forces...
by Jason | Feb 5, 2020 | ISIS
On 26-27 January, an unidentified drone flew over southern Sebha through to Murzuq suspected to be pursuing ISIS-Libya members believed to be active in the area. On 27 January, the Libyan National Army (LNA)’s 173 Infantry Brigade claimed ISIS fighters had fired on...
by Jason | Feb 5, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 1 February, an Egyptian court sentenced former Egyptian special forces officer and alleged Islamist militant, Hisham al-Ashmawy, to death in relation to multiple terrorism convictions. Those charges include being involved in an attack in 2014 that left 22 military...
by Jason | Feb 5, 2020 | International actors
On 29 January, UN Envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salamé gave his 17th brief to the UN Security Council (UNSC) where he expressed serious concern about the ongoing violence in southern Tripoli. He said, “I regret to report that the truce holds only in name.” He explained that...
by Jason | Feb 5, 2020 | Libyan actors
From 1-2 February, clashes and aerial attacks between Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) forces and anti-LNA forces occurred in the al-Washka area, some 130km from Misrata and 100 km from Sirte. On 1 February, LNA Special Force units claimed to have repelled...
by Jason | Jan 30, 2020 | ISIS
A delegation of Tunisian authorities arrived in Misrata last week, to work to repatriate six children of Tunisians killed in the ranks of ISIS in 2016. These children are considered to be offspring of ISIS fighters killed in Sirte.
by Jason | Jan 30, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
The Libyan citizen Mustafa al-Iman was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for his role in the 2012 terrorist attack on two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi that killed four Americans. Al-Imam, 47, was captured in Libya in October 2017 and subsequently...
