Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya (PFLL; ) is a Gaddafi loyalist militia and political party that aims to elect Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, as president of Libya. Aims and ideology The PFLL follows a Gaddafi loyalist agenda. The party maintains that the First Libyan Civil War was the result of a conspiracy against Libya. It holds a negative view of the United Nations and NATO, which played a large role in overthrowing Gaddafi during the 2011 intervention. Its stated aim is to build a sovereign state and "liberate the country from the control of terrorist organizations that use religion as a cover and are funded by foreign agencies." It has run advertisements opposing Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War as well as the presidency of Fayez al-Sarraj. It opposes normalizing relations with Israel. Timeline of activities 26 December 2016: the PFLL was founded. October 2017: the PFLL was defeated in clashes with the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade, leading to the arrest of the military leader, Al-Mabrouk Ehnish, on the 16th. March 2018: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi announced his intention to run in the 2019 Libyan general election under the PFLL. 6 July 2019: it was reported that the PFLL had joined the Libyan National Army in the 2019 Western Libya offensive. 30 September 2019: the coordinator of the group's Ajdabiya branch, Ahmed Abdel Mawla, held a speech wherein he praised the Libyan National Army's advances against anti-LNA factions, re-affirmed the PFLL's support for Saif and denounced the 2011 uprising as a Turkish-Qatari conspiracy.