The head of military intelligence for eastern Libya’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) has been killed in a targeted assassination, according to eastern Libyan authorities. Prime minister of the Eastern Libyan government, Osama Saad Hammad, condemned the killing and pledged to “uncover the circumstances of the crime”. Al-Mansouri was appointed as director of military intelligence in Benghazi, with the rank of major-general, in 2024. Libya split in 2014 between rival eastern and western factions after a ⁠2011 NATO-backed uprising toppled longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi. The LNA, led by military commander Khalifa Haftar, controls much of eastern and southern Libya.