by Jason | Sep 18, 2018 | International actors
On 11 September, the UN Security Council Committee added rebel militant Ibrahim Jadhran to a sanctions list. The following day on 12 September, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Jadhran for his attacks on the Oil Crescent...
by Jason | Sep 18, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 18 September, Government of National Accord Interior Minister, Abdussalam Ashour, confirmed that hostilities between militia groups had re-emerged south of Tripoli. Clashes were reported on Tripoli’s Airport Road (Tariq Al-Matar) between the Samoud Brigade led by...
by Jason | Sep 11, 2018 | ISIS
On 10 September, three ISIS fighters raided Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) offices in central Tripoli, leaving at least two staff members dead and another 10 injured. The Special Deterrence Force (Rada) were reportedly deployed to the area and engaged in a...
by Jason | Sep 11, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 7 September, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM)-linked media accounts published a eulogy/biographical note for the Libyan AQIM commander Miloud Sadaga. Sadaga was originally from Derna and joined AQIM in 2008, going on to fight in Aurès and Kabylia, and then...
by Jason | Sep 11, 2018 | International actors
On 10 September, Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi held a meeting with Libyan National Army Commander Khalifa Haftar in al-Rajma, Benghazi. The two discussed recent domestic and international developments, the forth-coming elections in Libya, Italian and...
by Jason | Sep 11, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 9 September, UNSMIL initiated a meeting that gathered together the key rival factions involved in the militia clashes in Tripoli that began on 26 August. The groups signed an eight-point agreement that included a pledge to refrain from extorting sovereign...
by Jason | Sep 5, 2018 | ISIS
On 27 August, ISIS fighters are reported to have briefly detained a civilian 70 km south of Sirte. The Sirte Protection Force has since raised the security levels to critical.
by Jason | Sep 5, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 1 September, fighting between the Libyan National Army (LNA) and the remnants of the Derna Protection Force (DPF) renewed in Derna, reportedly left 11 LNA fighters dead and 19 injured. Local news outlets reported that among the dead was senior leader Mohamed...
by Jason | Sep 5, 2018 | International actors
On 28 August, US AFRICOM said it had killed a suspected ISIS fighter in an airstrike in Bani Walid. AFRICOM said it had carried out the strike in coordination with the Government of National Accord (GNA). It didn’t name the person who was killed, but local residents...
by Jason | Sep 5, 2018 | Libyan actors
Tripoli is now teetering on the precipice of a large-scale conflict that could trigger major unrest in the Western region and Libya as a whole. Last week’s violence erupted on 27 August when the 7th ‘Liwa’ from the town of Tarhuna (otherwise known as the Kani or...
