by Jason | Feb 16, 2015 | ISIS
ISIS in Sirte (Tripoli Wilayat) released a video depicting the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians on 15 February. The Egyptians had been seized in two separate kidnapping incidents in Sirte in December and January. The most recent issue of ISIS’s magazine,...
by Jason | Feb 16, 2015 | International actors
Italian Defence Minister, Roberta Pinotto, stated in an interview published on 15 February that the situation in Libya was urgent after the beheadings and that Rome was ready to fight against Islamist militants in the context of an international mission including...
by Jason | Feb 16, 2015 | Other Jihadi Actors
There was no significant non-ISIS jihadi activity to report this week.
by Jason | Feb 16, 2015 | Libyan actors
On 16 February Cairo launched bombing raids against the town of Derna in retaliation for the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by IS militants. Egypt struck several targets in Derna, including the houses of three ISIS leaders in the town. However most of the...
by Jason | Feb 9, 2015 | ISIS
On Wednesday 4 February, approximately 40 gunmen assaulted an oilfield in Mabruk, 170 kilometres south of Sirte, damaging its infrastructure, killing ten and abducting three Filipinos and two Nigerians workers present on site. The Mabruk oil field is connected to the...
by Jason | Feb 9, 2015 | International actors
There was no overt Western response to jihadi activity in Libya this week.
by Jason | Feb 9, 2015 | Other Jihadi Actors
In Tripoli a number of Ottoman-era tombs were attacked and damaged by radical Islamist groups who see them as contradicting Salafi/Wahhabi principles about the uniqueness of God and the prohibition of worshipping idols. Fighting continues unabated in Benghazi,...
by Jason | Feb 9, 2015 | Libyan actors
Operation Dignity (OD) launched in the early hours of Thursday 5 February a new initiative inside Benghazi, labeling it as “the final push” to achieve full control of the city and wipe out all extremists and Benghazi’s Revolutionaries Shura Council fighters left in...
by Jason | Jan 19, 2015 | ISIS
ISIS-cells inside Libya appear to be increasingly assertive and to be developing the potential to influence military and political events at the national level, including UN-backed negotiations and the overall dialogue process. On Saturday 17 January, an explosive...
by Jason | Jan 19, 2015 | International actors
On Wednesday 14 January, multilateral direct UN-backed negotiations started in Geneva, despite the last minute boycott of the Martyr’s bloc which was misrepresented in the media as a boycott of the whole rump GNC. Talks appear to have started off on the right...
