by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | Libyan actors
Clashes erupted in Tripoli’s western suburb of Janzour between members of the Special Operations Force, which belongs to the Interior Ministry, and a revolutionary brigade with Islamist leanings called the Knights of Janzour, which is now part of the Libya...
by Jason | Jun 27, 2014 | ISIS
ISIS in Libya did not exist yet. During this time, parliamentary elections were held in the midst of an increasingly difficult security situation. Militias continued to fight in the East, with a car bomb in the parking lot of the constitutional committee and new...
by Jason | Jun 27, 2014 | International actors
Tarek Mitri, head of UNSMIL, congratulated the High National Election Commission on a well-run election, indicating that the Libyan election was not bought or stolen at the ballot box. However, at the moment, the warring parties have still made no commitment to...
by Jason | Jun 27, 2014 | Other Jihadi Actors
There were two bank robberies on 18 June: one from the Alejmaa Alarabi Bank in the amount of €150,000, and another of €1.8 million from the central bank. Eight gunmen in two cars intercepted an armed vehicle leaving the central bank. Benghazi women’s rights activist...
by Jason | Jun 27, 2014 | Libyan actors
Haftar’s forces claimed substantial gains against Islamist groups over the past week. Ansar al Sharia has seemingly regrouped in its traditional strongholds in the Sidi Faraj and Hawari districts. Given that these areas have seen some of the heaviest airstrikes and...
by Jason | Jun 21, 2014 | ISIS
The spectacular military success of ISIS in Iraq show that a weak and brittle state structure can easily be defeated by a small number of trained and motivated jihadists. This message could inspire Ansar al-Sharia to launch a bold offensive in Libya’s east. There have...
by Jason | Jun 21, 2014 | International actors
The U.S. military captured Ahmed Abu Khatallah in Benghazi in the early morning of 16 June, the second such ‘extraordinary rendition’ of a Libyan citizen on Libyan soil in the past two years. Abu Khatallah is the suspected mastermind of the September 2012 attack on...
by Jason | Jun 21, 2014 | Other Jihadi Actors
A plane carrying Constitutional Drafting Assembly (CDA) members to Kufra was forced to make an emergency landing at a nearby oilfield airstrip on 18 June after the Kufra airport received anonymous threats that the plane would be shot down. The threats appear to target...
by Jason | Jun 21, 2014 | Libyan actors
The rhetoric on both sides of Operation Dignity intensified on 15 June, when Haftar said that all “terrorists” coming to Libya should leave now or “die here.” In turn, the Grand Mufti called for “revolutionaries” to wage jihad against Haftar and his followers....
by Jason | Jun 15, 2014 | ISIS
ISIS in Libya did not exist yet. However, the week saw the assassination of an Ansar al-Sharia leader in Derna and a senior police officer in Benghazi.
