4 July – 10 July: ISIS eastern branch, Wilayat Barqah, release a new video

Jul 10, 2018 | ISIS

On 4 July, ISIS branch in eastern Libya, known as Wilayat Barqah, released a new video titled “Point of Death” documenting its recent attacks against Libyan National Army (LNA) checkpoints in the Oil Crescent, the beheading of LNA soldiers, and interviews with four suicide bombers. This is the first video from ISIS-Barqah since September 2017.

On 6 July, in the most recent edition (no. 138) of their digital newspaper al-Naba, ISIS published a photo showing the captivity of two Libyan National Army (LNA) fighters who had been abducted just over a week before. On 26 June, ISIS fighters kidnapped two LNA air force and air defence officers, identified as Colonels Abdullah Hamad Bouamoud Zawawi and Mostafa Nasser al-Khuraisi, while they participated in a social gathering in the desert area between Zallah and Waddan. The officers were identified by their military uniforms.