by Client Client | Jul 19, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 19 July, the GNU Chief of Staff, Mohammed Haddad, issued a decision to create a new brigade in Tajoura under the command of the GNU that would integrate the Rahbat al-Durua militia. The decision to form the brigade was reportedly issued by the then Government of...
by Client Client | Jul 19, 2021 | International actors
On 19 July, Libyan TV channel 218 claimed that Turkish military officers had entered Bani Walid following operations of the 444 Brigade. It is claimed that the Turkish officers installed an air defence and jamming system inside the Military Industrialization Factory....
by Client Client | Jul 15, 2021 | International actors
On 15 July, the Italian Chamber of Deputies voted to renew Italy’s funding to train the Libyan coast guard. On the same day, Amnesty International published a report ‘’No one will look for you’: Forcibly returned from sea to abusive detention in Libya’,...
by Client Client | Jul 15, 2021 | International actors
On 15 July, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a meeting on Libya chaired by French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian and attended by 15 Member States. The delegates issued a statement stressing the importance of free and fair presidential and...
by Client Client | Jul 15, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 15 July, local reporting claimed that the Libyan National Army (LNA) 128 Battalion had mobilised some of its forces to al-Shuwayrif.
by Client Client | Jul 13, 2021 | ISIS
On 13 July, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) published ‘Islamic State fortifies its position in the Lake Chad Basin’, detailing how ‘Boko Haram fighters who left for Libya over the years for different reasons are returning to the Lake Chad Basin to re-join...
by Client Client | Jul 13, 2021 | Libyan actors
On 13 July, the Government of National Unity (GNU) Prime Minister Abdul Hameed Dabaiba, issued a decree to establish a joint security operations room to reinforce security in Libya’s southern region. The room will be headed by the Deputy Minister of the Interior,...
by Client Client | Jun 14, 2021 | ISIS
On 14 June, ISIS claimed responsibility for an ambush and improvised explosive devise (IED) attack that killed the commander of an Libyan National Army (LNA) patrol, Captain Ali Muhammad Othman, near Haruj (Harouj) Mountains. According to reports, the LNA was...
by Client Client | Jun 6, 2021 | ISIS
On 6 June, ISIS claimed a suicide vehicle borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) attack targeting a Libyan National Army (LNA) checkpoint at Maziq Gate, near Sebha, which killed four people, including the head of the Sebha Criminal Investigation Department,...
by Client Client | Jun 2, 2021 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 2 June, local news sources reported that the Libyan National Army (LNA)-affiliated Tarik Bin Ziyad brigade and the Government of National Unity (GNU) Ministry of Interior’s Security Positions Unit had arrested three Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) militants...
