by Jason | Feb 13, 2018 | International actors
On 9 February, US President Donald Trump extended for one year the national emergency that President Barack Obama first issued on 25 February 2011 pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. In his statement, Trump said that, “the situation in Libya...
by Jason | Feb 13, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 7 February, Mahmoud al-Werfalli, a Commander of the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) Saiqa Special Forces in Benghazi who is wanted on charges of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), handed himself into the LNA for questioning. When the IC arrest...
by Jason | Feb 6, 2018 | ISIS
On 30 January, Indian media reported that the Indian Ministry of External Affairs had received information from Libyan authorities that an Indian national named Tabrez Tambe is being held in a Libyan jail as a prisoner of war. Tambe reportedly fled India in January...
by Jason | Feb 6, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
Last week, the Libyan National Army (LNA) deployed forces from Benghazi and nearby towns to take positions around Derna and prepare an offensive against the Derna Mujahadeen Shura Council (DMSC), which controls the city. The LNA has been besieging the city for several...
by Jason | Feb 6, 2018 | International actors
On 1 February, UNSMIL said more than 200 tons of Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) had been destroyed in Libya, with the support of the United Nations Mine Action Service and the governments of Denmark and South Korea. Another 200 tons of ERW is planned to be destroyed...
by Jason | Feb 6, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 1 February, members of the mostly Misratan-staffed Central Region Zone, nominally under Government of National Accord (GNA) command, intercepted a convoy of Tawerghan Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) travelling from Ajdabiya near Bin Jawwad, east of Sirte, and...
by Jason | Jan 30, 2018 | ISIS
On 27 January, a cooperative effort began between the al-Bunyan al-Marsous Security Directorate of Sirte and the Red Crescent of Misrata to recover the bodies of ISIS fighters buried in Sirte’s neighborhood 600 and 656. Three bodies were recovered with another six the...
by Jason | Jan 30, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 23 January, a dual bombing in Benghazi led to at least 40 deaths, with many of those critically injured in the initial attack subsequently dying from their wounds. The first bomb went off outside the Bayaat al-Radwan mosque in the central al-Salmani district, as...
by Jason | Jan 30, 2018 | International actors
On 24 January, Libyan National Army (LNA) Special Forces commander Mahmoud al-Werfalli was filmed executing 10 people imprisoned by the LNA following a double bomb attack in Benghazi on 23 January. In response, UNSMIL and a number of Western countries condemned the...
by Jason | Jan 30, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 24 January, the field commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Special Forces division Mahmoud al-Werfalli publicly executed twelve people imprisoned by the LNA, who were accused of being jihadists. The video of the executions shows a man who resembles Werfalli...
