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The Battle of Sirte during the Second Libyan Civil War started in the spring of 2016, in the Sirte District of Libya, between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the loyalist forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) backed by the United States. ISIL forces had captured Sirte one year earlier, during the previous battle.
On 13 November 2015, the United States launched an airstrike in Derna, Libya. Two U.S. F-15E fighter jets targeted senior ISIL leader Abu Nabil al-Anbari in the airstrike, who was the top ISIL commander in Libya. [9] [10] In January 2016, ISIL's Libyan faction confirmed Abu Nabil's death in a eulogy to him. [11]
Serraj must "rebuild Libya's fractured institutions, tame power-hungry militias, win support from partisans of the government in the east, and -- last but not least -- crush the Islamic State's ...
The Libyan civil war (2014–2020), also known as the Second Libyan Civil War, was a multilateral civil war which was fought in Libya among a number of armed groups, but mainly the House of Representatives (HoR) and the Government of National Accord (GNA), for six years from 2014 to 2020. [124]
In February 2016, U.S. officials believed that there were 5,000 to 6,000 ISIL fighters in Libya, [15] and gave a maximum estimate of up to 6,500. [16] This marked an increase from previous estimates in the 2,000 to 3,000 range. [15] Many of ISIL's new recruits came from Iraq, Syria and Tunisia. [16]
Libyan Civil War (2014–present) The Islamic State seized control of Bin Jawad before militants in twelve vehicles attacked the city of Sidra, killing two Petrol Facilities Guard militants in a suicide bomb attack at a checkpoint on 4 January.
When the Libyan civil war broke out in 2011, the United States took part in a military intervention in the conflict, aiding anti-Gaddafi rebels with air strikes against the Libyan Army. With the success of the revolution and the overthrow of Gaddafi, US President Barack Obama said that the United States was "committed to the Libyan people" and ...
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