Qadhadhfa

In addition, the city is home to a large number of members of the Qadhadhfa tribe, to which Gaddafi belongs.

During the Libyan civil war the Qadhadhfa held a key role in supporting the Libyan government.

Ethnically an Arabized Berber, he came from a small, relatively unimportant tribal group called the Qadhadhfa.

Al Jazeera reported that Qadhadhfa officers executed 20 officers of the Firjan tribe in the early weeks of the conflict.

Phelan claimed that there were summary executions of members of the Qadhadhfa tribe by members of the National Transitional Council:

After Gaddafi's death in October 2011, leading members of the Qadhadhfa demanded the return of his body by Misratan fighters for burial by relatives in Sirte.

After several disagreements with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (from the Qadhadhfa tribe), Jalloud resigned, departing the Libyan political scene, and was replaced by Captain Mohammad Emsied al-Majdoub al-Gaddafi as the general coordinator of the Revolutionary Committees.

In Sabha (part of a "closed military zone"), clashes started again (allegedly for the theft of a car by a tribe member) between members of the Awlad Suleiman and Qadhadhfa tribes, lasting for six days, although Army special forces units intervened on 31 December trying to end the violence.