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Libya’s civil war may be over after a peace deal and the formation of a unity government, but the lines of control between former military rivals remain in place for now.
Libya Control Map & Timeline: Lines Frozen by Unity Deal – April 2021 (Subscription) Full Article »
Amid Turkish military support of Libya’s western-based GNA faction, the eastern-based LNA has lost its footholds in Tripoli and been driven almost completely out of the country’s northwest.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline: Tables Turned in Tripoli – June 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »
Libya’s Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) has continued to gain ground in the west amid a major withdrawal by the rival Libyan National Army (LNA).
Heavy fighting over the greater Tripoli area has continued between the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) – the latter now backed up by the Turkish military and allied rebels from Syria.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline: GNA Takes Sabratha – April 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »
The eastern-based Libyan National Army has captured the coastal town of Sirte and reached the doorstep of western-controlled capital Tripoli, even as the western government is reinforced by the Turkish military and allied Syrian rebels.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline: LNA Takes Sirte – January 2020 (Subscription) Full Article »
The eastern-backed forces of Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) have fought their way closer to the capital city of Tripoli proper, also seizing a town from Toubou militias on the border with Niger.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline – December 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
The eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) has continued to consolidate footholds Tripoli, but still hasn’t managed to turn the tables enough to capture the city itself from the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline – November 2019 Full Article »
The fight for Tripoli remains at a stalemate, with each of the country’s rival governments losing and the recapturing territory, while control has shifted again in the far southern town of Murzuq.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline – September 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
Libya’s two rival government’s remain at direct war over Tripoli, with neither side gaining a clear upper hand, though the western administration has scored one major victory in a town to the south.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline – July 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »
Fighting between Libya’s rival governments has focused in on the southern suburbs of Tripoli, where small areas have changed hands many times in recent weeks.
Libyan Civil War Map & Timeline – June 2019 (Subscription) Full Article »