by Jason | Apr 1, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 30 March, two employees of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) who were kidnapped from Sharara oil field in southwest Libya in 2018 were freed by Libyan National Army (LNA) forces. The employees are Libyan national, Ashraf Msallam, and Romanian national,...
by Jason | Apr 1, 2020 | International actors
On 26 March, ambassadors from 27 European Union (EU) countries came to an agreement to launch a naval mission – dubbed Operation Irini – to enforce the United Nations (UN) arms embargo on Libya. The mission will formally be launched on 31 March, just as the existing...
by Jason | Apr 1, 2020 | Libyan actors
On 25 March, Government of National Accord (GNA)-aligned forces launched multiple coordinated assaults on Libyan National Army (LNA) forces at Watiya airbase (west of Tripoli), in Abu Grein (east of Misrata) and in the south of Tripoli, in what has been dubbed as...
by Jason | Mar 25, 2020 | ISIS
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by Jason | Mar 25, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 19 March, a Benghazi Defence Brigade (BDB) commander, Ziyad Belaam, was severely injured while fighting against Libyan National Army (LNA) forces on the Ain Zara axis in southern Tripoli. The LNA’s 155 Battalion had earlier claimed to have “eliminated the targeted...
by Jason | Mar 25, 2020 | Libyan actors
Over the last week, Libyan authorities have taken a number of preventative measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19 and as of the evening of 24 March, the National Centre for Disease Control confirmed the first case of the disease. Reports indicate that the patient...
by Jason | Mar 25, 2020 | International actors
On 17 March, the embassies of Algeria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, the UK, the US and the EU delegation to Libya called on the Libyan parties to sustain a humanitarian ceasefire and spare the country more suffering in the light of the...
by Jason | Mar 18, 2020 | ISIS
Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester bomber, Salman Abedi has been found guilty of the murder of 22 people and helping to plan one of the deadliest terror attacks the UK has ever seen. During the trial, it emerged that Hashem Abeid had stood shoulder to...
by Jason | Mar 18, 2020 | Other Jihadi Actors
The conviction of Libyan national Abdel Basset al-Megrahi – the only man found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing – has been referred for an appeal to Scotland’s High Court of Justiciary. Mergrahi died in 2012, after denying involvement....
by Jason | Mar 18, 2020 | International actors
On 16 and 17 March, the Government of National Accord’s (GNA) Minister of Interior, Fathi Bashaagha, travelled to France to hold meetings with his French counterpart, Christophe Castaner. This comes after a series of meetings in the UK. On 11 March, Bashaagha spoke to...
