26 September – 2 October: DPF suspect of assassination attempt on Dean of Derna Municipality

Oct 2, 2018 | Other Jihadi Actors

On 25 September, an attempt to assassinate the Dean of the Derna Municipality, Abdel-Moneim al-Ghaithi, was thwarted following the identification and dismantling of an Improvised Explosive Devise close to his room in the Pearl Hotel in the city. Derna Protection Force (DPF) remnants are suspected of being responsible for the incident.

On 26 September, the Libyan National Army (LNA) stopped a woman at a checkpoint near Zawiyat al-Urqub in Derna after she was founded to be carrying weapons, money and other documents for DPF remnants in the city.