by Jason | Apr 24, 2018 | International actors
On 18 April, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs held a subcommittee hearing on the status of Libya that featured statements from a series of Libyan experts. This month Senegal decided to deport to their country of origin two former Guantánamo prison...
by Jason | Apr 24, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 21 April, the Libyan National Army (LNA) said its jets conducted three airstrikes against a location near Bani Walid where they claimed militias positioned to attack the Oil Crescent were based. The strike reportedly killed 3 and injured 6 Petroleum Facilities...
by Jason | Apr 17, 2018 | ISIS
There were no developments reported this week.
by Jason | Apr 17, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 12 April, Libyan National Army (LNA) forces arrested an Ansar al-Sharia (AS) figure from Sirte named Salem Abdul Qaway al-Gaddafi while hiding in the Jufra area. On 27 May 2017, AS officially announced that it had disbanded itself. AS’s leadership and fighting...
by Jason | Apr 17, 2018 | International actors
On 14 April, attempts to negotiate peace between the Awlad Suliman, Tebu and Tuareg tribes, who have been clashing in and around the southern Libya city of Sebha since February of this year, have moved to Niger and are allegedly being facilitated by French diplomats...
by Jason | Apr 17, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 10 April, unconfirmed reports began circulating that that Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar, after losing consciousness in Benghazi, was rushed to Amman in Jordan then transferred to the Val-de-Grace hospital in Paris, France. He is said to have...
by Jason | Apr 10, 2018 | ISIS
On 7 April, local Libyan National Army (LNA) affiliated security forces apprehended a suspected ISIS member who was allegedly preparing to conduct an attack against LNA forces in the coastal town of Zueitina. This follows an increase in security patrol by the LNA and...
by Jason | Apr 10, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 3 April, following a written question by British MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle the UK government responded that it was “likely” that it had been in communication with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and the 17 February Martys Brigade during the war in Libya in...
by Jason | Apr 10, 2018 | International actors
On 10 April, the UN human rights office and UN Support Mission in Libya released a report exploring armed groups control of prisons in Libya, the subsequent torturing of detainees and how successive government in Tripoli have been inability to curtail these...
by Jason | Apr 10, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 9 April, the spokesperson for Presidential Council (PC) head Fayez al-Serraj, Mohamed al-Sallak, reported that the PC’s new anti-terrorist operation Asifat al-Wattan (The Nation’s Storm) had completely removed all elements of terrorist organizations in its...
