by Jason | Mar 6, 2018 | ISIS
On 28 February, US law enforcement officials stated that twenty year old Bernard Raymond Augustine from Keyes in the US, accused of trying to enter Libya to join ISIS, had been arrested. Augustine had been returned to the US from Tunisia after being first arrested in...
by Jason | Mar 6, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 4 March, four people were allegedly injured by artillery shelling from the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) 321 artillery battalion on al-Zintan neighbourhood near the western entrance of Derna. The following day the UN Secretary-General envoy, Ghassan Salame held a...
by Jason | Mar 6, 2018 | International actors
On 4 March, the Egyptian army announced it had foiled an “infiltration attempt” across its western border with Libya after reportedly destroying 11 vehicles loaded with arms and ammunition on the Libyan border. The is the latest in a series of similar...
by Jason | Mar 6, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 6 March, local sources reported clashes between Tebu and Awlad Suliman militias involving tanks in the Nasriya area of Sebha, north of the airport. Fighting between the two groups has also intensified in the Tayuri district of Sebha, an area populated with Tebu and...
by Jason | Feb 27, 2018 | ISIS
On 21 February, at 9:15 in the morning, an ISIS Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) drove into the Libyan National Army’s (LNA) 127 infantry battalion at a checkpoint near Waddan in the Jufra district. The attack destroyed two vehicles and killing three...
by Jason | Feb 27, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 25 February, Interpol issued a Red Notice (i.e. an international wanted persons alert) for Mahmoud al-Werfalli, the field commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) Special Forces Saiqa division, for war crimes relating to seven counts of murder. An LNA...
by Jason | Feb 27, 2018 | International actors
On 26 February, the US imposed sanctions on several Libyan, Maltese and Egyptian firms, traders and ships reportedly participating in oil smuggling out of Libya. The US Treasury has alleged that a Malta-based network has gained more than US$36 million through illicit...
by Jason | Feb 27, 2018 | Libyan actors
On 26 February , Libya’s National Human Rights Commission confirmed that two civilians have been killed, while another was injured, in clashes between Awlad Suliman’s 6th Brigade and Tebu militias in Sabha. The groups are said to be clashing after the Italian peace...
by Jason | Feb 20, 2018 | ISIS
On 18 February, Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui is reported to have stated in an address at the Munich Security Conference in Germany that ISIS will attempt to return to Libya following its defeat in Iraq and Syria. In his speech Jhniaoui called for the...
by Jason | Feb 20, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors
An LNA offensive against the Derna Mujahedeen Shura Council (DMSC), which controls Derna, appears imminent. The Libyan National Army (LNA) continues to deploy large ground forces to Derna from Benghazi, Ajdabiya and other areas to prepare for the assault. Last week,...
