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⚖ RESOLUTION: No group had claimed responsibility for any of the six strikes (Aug 8–12, 2026) until Libya's GNU announced on September 6, 2026 that its Defense Ministry had arrested a five-member cell — including undisclosed foreign nationals — it says carried out the Zawiya and Tripoli drone attacks and was plotting further strikes on the South Tripoli power station and on political, security, and military figures. The government called it a 'broad and interconnected sabotage plot' backed by unnamed 'external entities' but did not identify the suspects, their nationalities, or any state or group it holds responsible, so the campaign's ultimate sponsor remains unconfirmed even with alleged operators now in custody.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Unresolved. No group has claimed the August 10, 2026 car bombing; an LNA investigation is ongoing.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Contested. The June 18, 2026 trilateral agreement sets an election deadline of February 17, 2027, but implementation of independent institutional guarantees remains unverified as of this update. Opposition hardened through September: both the Presidential Council and High State Council have publicly opposed a reported Boulos-brokered arrangement making Saddam Haftar president alongside Dbeibah as prime minister, Misrata political and military figures rejected the plan, and on September 24, 2026 Grand Mufti Al-Sadiq Al-Gharyani renewed public warnings against it, calling it a foreign-backed 'major conspiracy.' Separately, Presidential Council head Menfi met US adviser Massad Boulos in New York the same day, welcoming unification efforts while stressing 'Libyan ownership of the political process' — underscoring that formal US-Libyan engagement on the initiative continues even as domestic opposition grows.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Unresolved as of August 20, 2026; Issa remains in his post pending the reform committee's recommendations and his own stated conditions for formally withdrawing the resignation.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Contested. At least 8 people were killed; the GNU convened an expanded security meeting and moved to impose calm in Zawiya and Surman, but no formal attribution of blame has been issued.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Both trends are documented: central Mediterranean arrivals are down sharply while the eastern route has grown nearly 2x year-on-year, suggesting displacement of the flow rather than a net reduction in departures.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Both factors compound each other: UNSMIL's Hanna Tetteh told the Security Council that outages 'exacerbated by the severe heatwave' exposed 'institutional fragmentation... and governance failures,' while the August 12 substation strike shows attacks add acute, additional damage.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Unresolved; the three-person presidency envisioned by the June 2026 deal has not yet been formally seated as of this update, and opposition to a Haftar-headed executive persists.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Contested and evolving; regional alignments around Libya remain fluid as the US-brokered unity process advances.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Unresolved; Libyan commentators themselves are debating the drones' origin, and no forensic attribution has been publicly confirmed.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Formally signed August 30, 2026 at UNSMIL headquarters in Tripoli by four HoR members, four HSC members, Haftar delegate Shibani AbuHamoud, and GNU minister Walid Ellafi, with Dbeibah, Saddam Haftar, Osama Hamad, and Khalifa Haftar all publicly welcoming it. The signed 'Smaller Convening' text names the reconstituted HNEC board — Dhou Al-Hamali as chairman, Sana Al-Lishani as deputy — resolving the specific composition question the leaked draft had left open. UN Secretary-General Guterres welcomed the signing on September 1 as addressing the first two milestones of the political roadmap. The signing resolves the immediate procedural dispute over whether a deal would be concluded, but not the underlying legitimacy question: the agreement itself gives the HoR and HSC one month to formally approve it, and HoR member Khalifa al-Daghari said eastern lawmakers were not consulted on the negotiating team's makeup — echoing the concerns Menfi and al-Malati raised over the Tunis draft. Ten Western governments had already endorsed the outcome on August 26.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Unresolved tension rather than a factual dispute: both the advisory and the forum are independently confirmed and occurred four days apart, with Libya Herald itself noting the disconnect between official warnings and on-the-ground US commercial engagement.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Unresolved and actively disputed. At least 30 people have been executed since August 23, 2026 and at least 50 more remain under death sentence; UNSMIL's September 16 call to suspend further executions pending review has not produced a public LAAF commitment to halt them.

⚖ RESOLUTION: Unresolved; authorities had not determined a cause as of the latest reporting, and no casualties were confirmed at local medical facilities.