New Report Details The Horrors Of Life Under …
Human Rights Watch interviewed 45 Sirte residents for its report, which paints a vivid picture of how ISIS controls every aspect of life. ISIS has benefited from the chaos in Libya.
Russian mercenaries seen in Sirte city: Libyan army …
TRIPOLI, Libya. The Libyan army on Wednesday said it spotted several trucks of Russian Wagner mercenaries in the coastal city of Sirte. In a statement, the government-led Volcano of Rage Operation ...
Returning to ruined city, Libyan family struggles …
November 9, 20216:02 AM PSTUpdated 2 years ago. SIRTE, Libya, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Displaced for years by war, the Mokhtar family is set on reoccupying their home in Libya's ruined city of Sirte but ...
Why is Sirte everyone's 'red line' in Libya?
By capturing Sirte, one could easily seize a 350-kilometer (217-mile) coastal stretch all the way to Benghazi, abounding in pipelines, refineries, terminals and storage facilities. Hifter's seizure of the "oil crescent" — home to 60% of Libya's hydrocarbon riches — had given him the leverage to undermine the Tripoli and Misrata forces.
ISIS: Libyan forces taking back stronghold | CNN
Libyan forces have retaken parts of Sirte from ISIS militants, gaining ground in the extremist group's most significant stronghold outside Syria and Iraq.
Libya | Wilson Center
Libya's uprising began on Feb. 15-16, 2011 after a small civil protest to demand freedom for human rights lawyer Fethi Tarbel in eastern Benghazi. The protest – in a city a long political rival of Tripoli – soon grew into a larger armed movement targeting the regime of Colonel Moammar Qaddafi, who had been in power since a 1969 military coup.
U.S. warplanes launch bombing campaign on Islamic State in Libya
Libyan fighter jets have frequently bombed Sirte, but they lack the weapons and technology to make precision strikes. Islamic State took advantage of political chaos and a security vacuum to start ...
U.S. Special Operations troops aiding Libyan forces in major …
The new American operation in Sirte is the culmination of an extended, low-visibility mission in Libya by U.S. special operators, who established small outposts in recent months as part of an ...
Salafi Jihadi Areas Of Operation In Libya | Critical Threats
By 2015, IS-Libya had established multiple branches in Libya, including a group that controlled the city of Sirte on the north-central Libyan coast. A combination of international and Libyan military campaigns pushed IS-Libya out of coastal cities, including Sirte, in 2016–17. IS-Libya members retreated to the Fezzan region in southwestern ...
Guide to key Libyan militias
According to a UN report issued in December, IS has between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters in Libya, including 1,500 in Sirte. The group seems to be attracting fighters from sub-Saharan countries.
Strategic Lessons from the Ejection of ISIS from Sirte
On the local level, ISIS encroached on Sirte in 2015 by forming key alliances with elements of disgruntled tribes––the Megarha, Warfalla, Furjan and Qadhadhifa––which were once associated with the Qaddafi regime and now found themselves without any sort of stake in the new Libya. Sirte's inhabitants and infrastructure paid dearly for ...
Islamic State conflict: The Libyans gaining ground in Sirte
Sirte was to be the Islamic State's bolt-hole from its bases in Iraq and Syria. But here, as in their home territories, the militants are losing. Libya's pro-government forces are gaining ground.
LNA vs GNA: A guide to Libya's Sirte-Jufra battle
Bassem Aly, Sunday 9 Aug 2020. Ahram Online charts a guide to the ongoing Sirte-Jufra battle in Libya, objectives of each party to the conflict and the existing politico-military …
A Field Guidebook to the Geology of Sirt Basin, …
Abstract and Figures. The Al Aqaylah – Marada – Az Zahrah excursion area is located in the central northern part of the Sirt Basin between the Zaltan – Jahama Platform to the east and the ...
UN slams movement restrictions in 'security ops' around Sirte
The United Nations' Libya mission warned Friday that armed groups in the sensitive region of Sirte were preventing civilians from accessing vital
Gaddafi's prophecy comes true as foreign powers battle for Libya…
Last modified on Sun 2 Aug 2020 06.18 EDT. In August 2011, as Libya's rebels and Nato jets began an assault on Tripoli, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi delivered a speech calling on his supporters to ...
Marsa El Brega LNG Terminal
Owner: Sirte Oil Company [100%] Parent company: Libya National Oil Corporation; Location: Brega, Al Wahat, Libya; Coordinates: 30.40675, 19.5935 (exact) Type: Export; Trains: 4; Capacity: 3.2 mtpa, 0.46 bcfd (0.80 mtpa per train) Status: Mothballed; Start Year: 1970; Idle Year: 2011
On Libya's front lines, Sirte is focus for regional rivalries
Since Turkish intervention helped drive Haftar's LNA back in early June from its 14-month offensive on the capital, Tripoli, the front lines have settled around Sirte, in the middle of Libya's ...
Recommit to Libya ceasefire, urges senior UN representative
17 January 2023 Peace and Security. Following the latest meeting of rival military leaders in Sirte, Libya, the head of the UN Mission in the country (UNSMIL) has called upon the national authorities to recommit to fully supporting the implementation of Libya's 2020 ceasefire agreement. On Monday, Abdoulaye Bathily, who is also the Special ...
Russia's Wagner Group in Libya Pressures Europe on Oil
In tandem, Wagner attained de facto control over a network of military and air bases stretching from Qardabiya near Sirte to Brak near Sabha, bringing in MiG-29 and Su-24 fighter aircraft from ...
Why is Sirte everyone's 'red line' in Libya?
Why is Sirte everyone's 'red line' in Libya? Libya's coastal city of Sirte, a strategic gateway to major oil facilities, has emerged as a critical point of contention …
In Libya, a city once run by Islamic State struggles to start again
A year and a half since so-called Islamic State was ousted from Sirte, his property is half rubble, his mother's downstairs bedroom piled high with sand and soil where the militants dug underground tunnels. Once the Libyan "capital" of IS, this city became infamous in February 2015 when the group filmed an execution of 21 people on a ...
Libya country profile
Libya, a mostly desert oil-rich country, has become a key springboard for migrants heading for Europe, and a source of international tension as rival governments in the west and east seek to ...
Marsa el Brega | Oil Port, Geography, & Facts | Britannica
Marsa el Brega, Mediterranean port on the Gulf of Sidra in northeastern Libya. The site, which was located by a small fishing village destroyed during World War …
The Grinding Fight to Root Out ISIS in a Battered Libya
August 10, 2016. A Libyan fighter runs for cover in the town of Sirte, where various militias have been struggling to evict ISIS. Photograph by Goran Tomasevic / REUTERS. In late July, on a tree ...
Review of the petroleum geology of the western part of …
This paper reviews hydrocarbon occurrence in the Sirt Basin, Libya, focusing mainly on the western part of the basin between 15°00′ E to 18°30′ E and 28°00′ N to 31°30′ N (Fig. 1) and based on a review of the published literature and the available oil company reports as well as the author's experience gained during some thirty years of work at the …
Assessment of shale-oil resources of the Sirte Basin Province, …
Sirte Basin. Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated undiscovered, technically recoverable mean resources of …
How Libya reached its dangerous political impasse | Reuters
TRIPOLI, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Here is a timeline chronicling Libya's years of chaos and division: 2011 - Revolt and civil war. An uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule rapidly spreads ...
Libya split deepens as Sirte parliament passes budget
The budget passed by the parliament in the coastal city of Sirte aims to finance the government of Fathi Bashagha, who has been unable to enter the capital Tripoli to take over from an ...
22nd MEU Marines rocked ISIS fighters in Libya in 2016 with naval gunfire
Ryan Young/Marine Corps) On Aug. 1, 2016, a large-scale operation to push ISIS fighters out of the embattled Libyan city of Sirte was launched. The fight, dubbed Operation Odyssey Lightning, would ...