Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room

Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room
غرفة عمليات ثوار ليبيا
LeadersGeneral Chief of Staff of the Libyan Armed Forces
(Officially)
November 2013–present

Nouri Abusahmain
(as President of the GNC)
May–November 2013
Shaaban Hadia
(LROR Commander)

Adel Gharyani
(LROR Commander)
Dates of operationMay 2013–present
HeadquartersTripoli, Libya
Active regionsTripoli
Benghazi
IdeologyIslamist leaning[1]
AlliesFajr Libya militia[2]
OpponentsZintan Brigade
Battles and wars2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt
Second Libyan Civil War

The Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (abbreviated LROR; Arabic: غرفة عمليات ثوار ليبيا) is an armed group loyal to Nouri Abusahmain. It has been declared a terrorist organization by the Libyan parliament. It was heavily involved in the Second Libyan Civil War.

The LROR was established in 2013 by Nouri Abusahmain, who had recently been elected GNC President. He formed the LROR by uniting existing militias under his command. Its official task was to keep order in Tripoli. He allegedly misappropriated 900 million Libyan Dinars (US $720 million) to the benefit of the LROR, but this was not investigated as Abusahmain himself suppressed the inquiry.[3] Soon after being formed, the LROR attempted an Islamist coup when the group kidnapped Prime Minister Ali Zeidan in October 2013. The LROR later set up a branch in Benghazi, purportedly to deal with the deteriorating security situation.[4]

  1. ^ "Libya on the Brink After Militia Violence in Tripoli". Washington Institute for Near East Policy. 19 November 2013. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014.
  2. ^ "Libyan Dawn: Map of allies and enemies". 25 August 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-08-29. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  3. ^ John, R.B.S. (2014). Historical Dictionary of Libya. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 201. ISBN 9780810878761. Retrieved 2014-10-05.
  4. ^ "Guide to key Libyan militias". BBC News. 20 May 2014. Archived from the original on 21 October 2014.