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The Libyan crisis [1] [2] is the current humanitarian crisis [3] [4] and political-military instability [5] occurring in Libya, beginning with the Arab Spring protests of 2011, which led to two civil wars, foreign military intervention, and the ousting and death of Muammar Gaddafi.
Events in Libya in 2023.While the Islamic State still operated in decentralized guerilla-style desert “brigades” and networked cells from ungoverned spaces in Libya especially the desert areas of bases which carried out to exploit the chaos of Libyan society near the border with Egypt and into the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
A political process to resolve more than a decade of conflict in Libya has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed amid disputes over the eligibility of the main ...
The top U.N. official in Libya warned Tuesday that the political, military and security situation in the oil-rich north African country has deteriorated “quite rapidly” over the past two ...
23 July - Chad repatriates 157 citizens detained in Libya, with more repatriation flights planned to return all detained Chadians. [ 4 ] 28 July - A court in Derna convicts 12 city officials for mismanagement, negligence and other offences that contributed to the Derna dam collapses in 2023 and sentences them to between nine and 27 years ...
Members of that House of Representatives and the New General National Congress signed a political agreement on 18 December 2015. [2] Under the terms of the agreement, a nine-member Presidential Council and a seventeen-member interim Government of National Accord was formed, with a view to holding new elections within two years. [2]
In August 2023, clashes broke out in Tripoli, Libya, between the Special Deterrence Force (RADA) and the 444th Combat Brigade, two of the strongest military forces in the city. Both had supported the provisional Government of National Unity during the 2022 Tripoli clashes. [ 4 ]
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.