Overview
- Major-General Fawzi al‑Mansouri, head of military intelligence for the eastern Libyan National Army, was killed by an explosive device as he entered his car in Benghazi’s Hawari district on Monday, eastern authorities said.
- Separately, the Zawiya refinery west of Tripoli was hit by multiple drone strikes that included a strike on a 4.5 million‑litre gasoline storage tank that caught fire and collapsed.
- The National Oil Corporation said three attacks struck Zawiya over Sunday and Monday and that an earlier Saturday incident caused a controllable naphtha leak, and it warned continued strikes could force operations to halt.
- No group has claimed responsibility for the assassination or the refinery attacks and eastern officials have condemned the killing and opened investigations.
- The incidents expose Libya’s deep east–west divide and raise the risk that fragile unity talks and national fuel supplies will be derailed, since Zawiya is the country’s largest operating refinery and is linked to major oilfields.