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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
