Terrorist and Armed Groups in the Fezzan-Sahel Region: Recruitment and Communication Tactics

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Written By Stefano Marcuzzi

Stefano Marcuzzi and Jason Pack’s report on ‘Terrorist and Armed Groups in the Fezzan-Sahel Region: Recruitment and Communication Tactics’ for the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence discusses terrorist and armed group activity in the Libyan Fezzan (southwestern Libya) as well as these groups’ ties to local tribes. It begins with an overview of the affiliations of some of the main ethnic groups and tribes in southern Libya and their involvement in terrorism and people-smuggling. It then discusses the specific recruitment tactics and people-smuggling activities of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and ISIS in southern Libya, highlighting their relevance for the international community and NATO…


Read the full report here.

Stefano Marcuzzi

Stefano Marcuzzi is the Project Area Lead of NATO & its Adversaries for NATO & the Global Enduring Disorder. An Oxford University DPhil in Military History, he has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, a Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe, Brussels, and a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University College Dublin (UCD) and an external fellow at Boston University (BU). Stefano is also an Emerging Challenges Analyst for the NATO Defense College Foundation.

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