ISIS launched an audacious attack on Tripoli, as Libya's two rival governments continue to wage war on each other, with new air-strikes on the contested city of Benghazi.
The latest edition of the English-language ISIS magazine Dabiq includes a tirade against Qaeda-aligned forces in Libya, amid an internecine war of jihadist factions.
Libya's "recognized" government, now exiled to the country's east, called for international air-strikes against ISIS positions in the country—a call rejected by the "rebel" regime in Tripoli.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and related networks are said to control Saharan smuggling routes for Moroccan hashish to fund their regional operations.
Saif al-Islam Qaddafi was sentenced to death in absentia by a court controlled by the Tripoli-based government, while he is held by a militia loyal to the rival Tobruk-based government.
Warring parties in Libya signed a preliminary UN-sponsored peace agreement—but without the Islamist-led Libya Dawn coalition that continues to hold Tripoli.
ISIS loyalists were driven out of Libya's eastern city of Derna by a coalition of rival jihadists, signaling a struggle between ISIS and al-Qaeda for control of the local franchise.
The Pentagon announced that Ali Awni al-Harzi, a suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, was killed by a US air-strike in Mosul, Iraq.
US warplanes carried out air-strikes on Ajdabiya, Libya, killing several leading members of the Ansar al-Sharia militant network which had recently proclaimed for ISIS.
Both the Islamist-led Libyan Dawn coalition that controls Tripoli and the more secular "official" government now exiled to Tobruk are battling ISIS forces in Libya.
A British warship in the Mediterranean launched a mission to rescue over 500 migrants stranded at sea, but no word was given on what would be their fate after "rescue."
As Libyan peace talks open in Morocco, ISIS militants abduced 86 Eritrean Christian migrants—including 12 women and several children—at a roadblock outisde Tripoli.
