Abdulrazek al-Nadoori

Abdulrazek al-Nadoori (Arabic: عبد الرازق الناظوري) is a Libyan military officer who has served under Khalifa Haftar in the National Liberation Army and Libyan National Army. He served as the military governor of the area between Derna and Bin Jawad from 2016 to 2018, and temporarily replaced Haftar as Chief of General Staff of the National Liberation Army in 2021.

Lieutenant General Abdulrazek al-Nadoori
Native name	عبد الرزاق الناظوري
Allegiance	Libya (HoR)
Branch	Libyan Ground Forces
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands	Chief of the General Staff

Career

Speaker of the House of Representatives Aguila Saleh Issa appointed al-Nadoori as military governor of the area in eastern Libya between Derna and Bin Jawad on 19 June 2016, and removed him on 21 July 2018. During al-Nadoori's tenure as military governor he prohibited women from travelling without a male companion and replaced multiple elected mayors with military officers.^[1] On 18 April 2018, he survived an assassination attempt in Benghazi that used a car bomb.^[2] Saleh stated that al-Nadoori's actions as governor were still valid after his removal.^[3]

Wanis Abu Khamada, a commander in the Libyan Special Forces, was dismissed on 15 February 2018, and replaced by al-Nadoori.^[4] Khalifa Haftar transferred command over a portion of his military to al-Nadoori in 2020.^[5] al-Nadoori temporarily replaced Haftar as Chief of General Staff of the National Liberation Army from 24 September to 24 December 2021,^[6] in order for Haftar to run in the presidential election.^[7] Libyan Chief of General Staff Mohammed Al-Haddad and al-Nadoori met on 11 December 2021 to discuss unifying the different military groups of the Libyan civil war.^[8]