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Libya captures ISIS leader behind 2018 terrorist attacks in Tripoli

 


A leader of ISIS, or Daesh, who allegedly planned three deadly attacks in Tripoli, the capital and largest city of Libya, in 2018, has been captured by the country.

Abdelhamid Dbeibah, the prime minister of Libya under the Government of National Unity in Tripoli, reportedly said during a live television broadcast, “Our forces apprehended on Tuesday a leader of the terrorist organization Daesh, involved in the planning and command of terrorist acts that targeted the institutions of our country and their fallen officials.”

Abdelhamid Dbeibah, the Interim Prime Minister of Libya, did not reveal the name or the nationality of the terrorist. He was reportedly arrested in a joint military operation.

Dbeibah, the head of the United Nations-supported Libyan government, said that his government would “combat terrorism in all its forms,” to “prosecute anyone involved” in terrorist acts.

In May 2018, 14 people were killed in a suicide attack at the Libyan High Electoral Commission in Tripoli. The attack was claimed by ISIS. However, the government was unable to track the terrorist.

In September 2018, another terrorist attack at the Libyan National Oil Company in Libya’s capital killed 2 people and injured 10 others. 

In December 2018, a terrorist attack by ISIS against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs killed three people, including a diplomat. 

Since Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow in 2011, ISIS has taken advantage of the breakdown of Libya's security system to carry out a number of devastating attacks throughout the nation. They seized Sirte, Gaddafi’s birthplace, Derna in eastern Libya, and other cities. 

Earlier this year, a Libyan court sentenced 23 people to death for their alleged participation in a violent ISIS terrorist campaign, which included the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians in 2015. They were reportedly found guilty for joining the terrorist group and killing people.


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