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At the request of UN-backed Libyan unity government in Tripoli, the US launched airstrikes against ISIS positions in the strategic port city of Sirte to enable local government forces make a decisive and strategic advance to capture the city wherein jihadist fighters are entrenched. According to the Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook, US operated aircraft […]
Several attempts by the Tobruk-based parliament to hold a vote of confidence of the national unity government proposed by Prime-Minister designate Fayz al-Serraj have failed. The latest session of the House of Representatives (HoR) took place on Tuesday but failed to reach a quorum. The establishment of a unity government under the Libya Political Agreement […]
The Pentagon is carefully studying military intervention options in Libya against self-style IS, a US official told reporters. “We’re looking at military options, a range of other options as… the situation in Libya unfolds,” said Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook. Cook also explained that the expansion of the terrorist group is a major concern to […]
Libyan reports based on sources from Derna Sunday rejected the US claims that an American F-15 fighter jet killed the IS leader in Libya, Abu Nabil Al-Anbari. Sources from the Libyan Eastern city pointed out that Abu Nabil Al-Anbari, aka Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, was not killed in the strike and that the Iraqi-born […]
The Pentagon will increase the number of its troops present in the Sinai peninsula under the Multinational Force of Observers (MOF) to more than 700 with “adequate force protection.” The decision was made after four U.S soldiers were injured by an improvised explosive device on September 3. The rising threat posed by armed militias and […]