by Jason | Jul 14, 2014 | International actors
United Kingdom Special Envoy to Libya Jonathan Powell, along with his US and UN counterparts, are devising a new strategy to mediate between Libya’s warring factions. There are indications that they will have to first bring the key anti-Islamist factions...
by Jason | Jul 14, 2014 | Other Jihadi Actors
The long expected showdown between Misratan and Zintani forces in Tripoli appears to have kicked off. Islamist brigades are lining up behind the Misratans in a bid to push the Zintanis out of key strategic redoubts (i.e. the airport). The confrontation began when...
by Jason | Jul 14, 2014 | Libyan actors
General Khalifa Haftar continues to fight militant groups in the East, and thus far shows no sign of making substantive progress. Despite his assaults against militant positions in Benghazi, the attacks and kidnappings have continued. Five people were killed in...
by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | ISIS
ISIS in Libya did not exist yet. At this time, preliminary election results for the House of Representatives are posted, and while it is still too early to say with any real certainty, the liberal (anti-Islamist) current is claiming victory. Violence has continued,...
by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | International actors
There was no Western Response this week.
by Jason | Jul 7, 2014 | Other Jihadi Actors
On 4 July, well-known Sufi imam Tareq Abbas was kidnapped in front of his house near Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in Tripoli, not far from Martyrs’ square. Although no one has claimed responsibility for Abbas’s abduction, it is widely assumed to have been the work of...
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...
