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Aug 10, 2026

Car bomb kills eastern Libya military intelligence chief in Benghazi

Major-General Fawzi al-Mansouri, head of military intelligence for eastern Libya's Libyan National Army, was killed when an explosive device detonated in his car outside his home in Benghazi.

Aug 10, 2026·5 sources

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▪Verisk Maplecroft analyst Hamish Kinnear stated that the assassination of Brigadier Fawzi al-Mansouri in a Libyan National Army stronghold is a major blow to the group's security credentials.
▪The political division in Libya followed a 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled the country's longtime autocrat Muammar Gaddafi.
▪Libya has remained politically divided since 2014 between rival eastern factions aligned with Khalifa Haftar and western factions under the UN-recognized Government of National Unity in Tripoli.

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