The Ajdabiya Revolutionaries Shura Council was a Libyan military coalition in
Ajdabiya which was declared on 25 March 2015.
On 15 December 2015, despite protests from the Mayor of Ajdabiya, the
Libyan National Army
The Libyan National Army (LNA; ar, الجيش الوطني الليبي, ''al-jaysh al-waṭaniyy al-Lībii'') is a component of Libya's military forces which were nominally a unified national force under the command of Field Marshal Khalifa ...
began an offensive on Ajdabiya, which resulted in the defeat of the Shura Council on 21 February 2016.
The group has denied any ties to the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
An Islamic state is a State (polity), state that has a form of government based on sharia, Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical Polity, polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a t ...
.
References
Jihadist groups in Libya
Ajdabiya
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