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Fighters of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government walk during reconnaissance patrol in a coastline of Sirte, Libya, July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

ISIS Regroups in Sirte Outskirts as US Strikes Leave Several Militants Dead

by Khaled Mahmoud and Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 30, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- UN-recognized government’s Defense Ministry Spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Al-Ghasri, speaking in Sirte on Friday, reiterated that ISIS has become a global threat. On that note, the US military has conducted airstrikes against ISIS in Libya this...

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Head of investigations for the Attorney General’s office Sadiq Al-Sour. AFP photo

Libya Dismantles Network Involved in Beheading of Copts

by Jamal Jawhar | Sep 29, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- A Libyan official revealed on Thursday that the authorities have dismantled a network that had carried out several terrorist attacks in the country, mainly the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt in Sirte in February 2015. Sadiq Al-Sour, head of...

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80 ISIS Militants Killed in US Strikes on Sirte

by Khalid Mahmoud | Jan 20, 2017 | Middle East

Brigadier Ahmed Abu Shahma, the military governor of the city of Sirte in southwestern Libya, told Asharq Al-Awsat that sudden air strikes carried out by US warplanes at dawn yesterday against ISIS sites in the city were implemented at the request of Al-Bunyan...

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A Libyan flag flies as fireworks explode during celebrations after Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government finished clearing Ghiza Bahriya, the final district of the former ISIS stronghold of Sirte, Libya, on Dec. 6, 2016. Photo by Hani Amara/Reuters

U.S. Bombers Hit ISIS Camps in Libya

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 19, 2017 | Middle East

U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers carried out air strikes against a couple of ISIS camps outside of Sirte, Libya, on Wednesday night, seeking to neutralize extremists who had escaped the former ISIS stronghold of Sirte, U.S. defense officials said on Thursday. Two U.S....

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Forces loyal to Libya’s U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) cycle in the al-Giza al-Bahriya area in ISIS’ bastion of Sirte during a clean-up operation on December 8, 2016. AFP

No Respite for Libya after ISIS driven from Sirte

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 10, 2016 | Middle East

Tripoli- As ISIS’ last defenses crumbled this week in their Libyan bastion Sirte, dozens of women and children used as human shields stumbled dazed and dust-caked from the rubble. Fighters from the armed groups that defeated the jihadists feted the end of a punishing...