by Jason | Aug 2, 2017 | Libyan actors
An overwhelming majority of Libya’s Constitutional Drafting Assembly (CDA) voted to approve the latest draft of the Libyan constitution on 29 July. Although the vote passed with 43 of the 44 present members’ approval, the assembly meeting was not without...
by Jason | Jul 26, 2017 | ISIS
Misratan-led Bunyan Marsus (BM) forces have raised the level of security readiness in Sirte in response to increased security threats. There are reports that on 22 July, BM forces sent 20 vehicles to Sabaa and established checkpoints at the west and east of the city...
by Jason | Jul 26, 2017 | International actors
On 25 July, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt announced the addition of six Libyan entities and two individuals to their list of Qatar-funded ‘terrorists’. The joint statement declared Alnabaa TV, Tanasuh TV, the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council,...
by Jason | Jul 26, 2017 | Other Jihadi Actors
A new video featuring the notorious LNA Saiqa Special Forces senior commander, Mahmoud al-Werfalli, directing the execution of prisoners of war was released on 23 July. Earlier this year Haftar rejected Werfalli’s resignation from Saiqa following widespread...
by Jason | Jul 26, 2017 | Libyan actors
On 25 July, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a meeting between Fayez al-Serraj, the head of the Presidential Council (PC) and Government of National Accord (GNA), and Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, General Commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA) at La...
by Jason | Jul 19, 2017 | ISIS
Battles continue in the final area (Khribish) in Sabri district of Benghazi, where a number of fighters and families are now still believed to be holding out, despite General Haftar’s announcement of official victory in Benghazi on 5 July. 10 LNA fighters were killed...
by Jason | Jul 19, 2017 | International actors
Various sources report that Libyan general Ali Kanna visited Algerian foreign minister Abdelkader Messahel in Algiers last week. Kanna, a former Tuareg leader in Muammar Gaddafi’s army, led command operations in the Fezzan until the very end of the uprising in...
by Jason | Jul 19, 2017 | Other Jihadi Actors
Skirmishes between Pro-GNA and hardliner militias in Tripoli continued this week, ending as the GNA-aligned militias successfully ousted hardliner militias from their positions in eastern Tripoli. Libyan press and international media mistakenly reported that the...
by Jason | Jul 19, 2017 | Libyan actors
On 14 July, Government of National Accord (GNA) President Fayez Serraj announced a new plan to realize the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA), which would include parliamentary AND Presidential elections by March 2018. Also on the docket is the establishment of a high...
by Jason | Jul 12, 2017 | ISIS
Misratan al-Bunyan al-Marsus (BM) forces, who nominally support the Government of National Accord (GNA), announced last week that they had skirmished with three units affiliated with the Libyan National Army (LNA) in Qasr Abu Hadi, south of Sirte, while they were on...
