Explosive-Laden Drones, Tanks and Heavy Weapons Deployed in the Municipality of Surman.
On Tuesday morning, a brigade tasked with containing clashes between militias in Libya halted the armed fighting that erupted in the municipality of Surman, at the height of the conflict, as drones carrying explosive payloads were deployed alongside tanks and other military weaponry.
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The 52nd Infantry Brigade of western Libya began entering the area when the clashes had reached their peak in the city’s residential neighborhoods, the Municipality of Surman reported.
The militias involved in the fighting are forces aligned with the Government of National Unity (GNU) — which administers western Libya under the leadership of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah — but are rivals of one another.
The fighting — whose death toll and extent of the damage have not yet been released by official sources — began shortly after 2 a.m. local time. As the conflict escalated, businesses and institutions urged their employees not to report to work because the fighting had spread across very large areas.
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The Emergency Medicine and Support Center managed to enter the conflict zones and secure the evacuation of several affected families. This came after several NGOs called for the opening of safe humanitarian corridors so that ambulances, emergency teams and the Red Crescent could evacuate trapped civilians and provide medical assistance to the wounded.
In May, the same area witnessed an intense clash between armed groups that lasted about 12 hours, killing at least four people, injuring more than 30 others, and causing extensive property damage.
It was the deadliest confrontation of 2026 in Libya and the first since the fighting that took place between May 12 and May 14, 2025, which left a dozen people dead and several others injured.
Since the last parliamentary elections in 2014, Libya has been mired in a deep crisis marked by recurring outbreaks of violence and institutional division, with the GNU governing the western part of the country while Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar controls the east.
The United Nations has been seeking to reunify the country through elections aimed at ending the crisis that began with the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. So far, however, progress has been slow and limited.
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