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Al Qaeda Enters Libya from Tunisia, as Further Evidence of ISIS activity and Militia abuses Emerges - 06-19-2020

Tripoli: Last night, the individual depicted in the picture raised the call to prayer at dawn outside the normal time for that, for unknown reasons According to the local sources, the reason was that the ISIS, which controls the mosques, raised the call to celebrate the arrival of al-Qaeda members from Tunisia to Libya, including an aide (Ayman al-Zawahiri) Misurata: Earlier, a member of a ISIS-affiliated militia  # Hamed_Al-Ammari from the city of Misurata was killed (indication being that his index finger was lifted proving that he belonged to ISIS). Additionally, one of the militias of 301 Misurata was also killed after their clash with the fuel smuggling group in the heat region west of Zawiya. Tarhuna city: A local girl, Marwa Ammar Al-Mabrouk Makhlouf, committed suicide after terrorist militia stormed their house, in an attempt to kidnap her. To avoid being taken into sexual slavery, she threw herself from the top of her family's house. These abductions of women are comm...

The Recruitment and Conscription of Child Soldiers by US-Supported Misurata Militias

Child recruitment by GNA and Turkey affiliated militias and mercenaries is widespread; however, most of the documented cases have come from Misurata (Misrata); the area has been receiving US military support since 2011. The typical strategy for recruitment involves targeting minors in orphanages and offering them 1000 Libyan dinars (200 dollars) weekly. Most recruits have joined the al-Mahjoub brigade; unlike Yemen, where child recruits go to training camps and are cultivators to be fighters; militia child conscripts receive little to no formal training and typically are used as combat fodder. Tripoli: The killing of the child militia member (Matin Fathi Al-Ghariari), born in 2004, who belongs to the “Tripoli Revolutionaries” militia has been documented and released by local sources.  Tripoli: Local sources have documented the killing of the child militia member (Osama Faraj Al-Takroni) born in 2003 and from the city of Misrata and related to the militia crowd, as a result of the c...

ISIS returns to Libya to Fight With Tripoli Al-Wefaq militias - 06-18-2020

 Adel Al-Hanashi Al-Ganzoury, an ISIS  member, fights with Al-Wefaq militias in the Tripoli hubs. He is a booby trap and mine expert who was responsible for the bombing of civilian homes. A group of Tajura youth in Tripoli were executed at the hands of the militias of the Albogra. The militias refused to withdraw the Turkey-backed mercenaries from the area.  Just how effective is US military assistance to local militias in guarding against the return of ISIS?

Tripoli Arsons, Militia Violence, and Rape/Sexual Harassment - 06-17-2020

Tripoli: Muhammad Al-Kilani,  a resident of the Salah Al-Din district claims (Muhammad Al-Kilani) published via social media h account on the status of his house and attached these photos. He and his family returned to their home upon the conclusion of the recent operations, they found their house as it is in the “neighborhood of flowers” ​​and by virtue of the lack of electricity they could not stay at home and they had to visit their house from time to time.  Yestereday they were shocked by a phone call from a neighbor telling them at their house has been set on fire and robbed. Worth noting is that this family has no political orientation and has not been involved in military action. Tripoli today:  Armed clashes between  the Turkey-backed Syrian mercenaries and the local GNA-affiliated militias from Tripoli burned the power stations of the Tripoli International Fair. #Tripoli Militia sexual crimes against Tripoli women and their daughters in the capital, control...

Attack on an Egyptian migrant laborer in Tarhuna

This Egyptian civilian worker was captured by GNA in Tarhuna city. He has small shop selling vegetables , GNA torrtured him Incy burning off his moustance and putting a burning cigarette on his hea. They also gave him food and demanded that he eats like dogs do. Then they started scolding and yelling him, ordering him to bark like a dog. Incidents such as this one are frequent and are often done to receive ransom from LNA and LNA supporters.  .

Evidence of GNA militia torture & liquidation of Tarhuna prisoners - June 9-14, 2020

Turkish Backed Militias and GNA torturing an unnamed civilian from Tarhuna because he is Tarhunian, and presumably aligned with LNA. This follows the Tarhuna offensive which dislodged the LNA forces from the area.  In the video, the militia members are seen cursing him, and telling him to open his legs. Then  they beat him, asking him about two men Nabil or Mohamed using fire. During the interrogation, the interrogators are sodomizing the civilian AKM47 Kalashinkov. The civilian has not yet been found. Last year, the Turkey-backed GNA-affiliated militias captured this young man Younis Al-Barouni from the city of Tripoli, who was originally from the city of Kabau. Kabau is where thAhmed Musa al-Zintani, from the LNA battalion, who was killed in combat. battalion of LNA, comes from. He was captured in # Al-Zahraa axis by Janzour militia. He is the brother of another LNA fighter Haitham al-Barouni, who was killled along with Ahmed Musa al-Zintani at the airport hub two days after...

Tarhuna Arson & Executions - 06-05 through 06-14-2020

What follows below is a documentation of war crimes perpetrated by Al-Sarraj led Government of National Accord ("GNA) and Turkey-backed Syrian mercenaries and militias against supports of Libyan National Army ("LNA") and their entire families in Tarhuna, following GNA's offensive. The offensive took place on June 5, 2020, ousting Khalifa Hafter-led forces fromt he city. GNA-affiliated fighters then proceeded to engage in a campaign of indiscriminant and violent retribution against the city residents, and anyone perceived as having been supportive to LNA.  Included in these scenes, with audio and video, are attacks by the GNA fighters inside Tarhuna General Hospital. A video shows the bodies of the LNA fighters killed in action. Their names and affiliation are written on the attached documents.  Following the killings, Al-Sarraj affiliated militias transferred the bodies from the morgue to other locations and buried them in mass graves. These photos have been submitte...