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...
by Client Client | Aug 4, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 4 August, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU, Abdul Hameed Dabaiba met with the ‘Committee for Organising, Absorbing and Integrating Militias into State Institutions’ to discuss integrating ‘supporting forces’ – in other words militias –...
by Client Client | Aug 3, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 3 August, Government of National Unity (GNU) Foreign Minister, Najla al-Mangoush, met with Khairi al-Tamimi, the Director of the Office of Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar. According to a LNA General Command statement, the meeting concerned the...
by Client Client | Aug 2, 2021 | ISIS
On 2 August, the Libyan National Army is reported to have undertaken airstrikes within the area of the Harouj Mountains following ISIS actvity in the area. Reports claim that reconnaissance operations were undertaken prior to the airstrikes.
