SIRTE, Libya: Forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) said Saturday they have launched a new attack on diehards of ISIS in the coastal city of Sirte. "We are attacking the last ISIS positions in district three," a GNA fighter told AFP. The GNA forces media center...
Behind the front lines in the Libyan city of Sirte, ageing tanks crunch through the debris of battle to new positions and resting fighters drink sweetened coffee waiting for orders to advance. Ahead, Islamic state militants besieged in a single residential neighborhood and targeted by U.S. air...
Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants on Wednesday and seized arms and an explosive belt prepared for suicide attacks during a dawn raid in a central province following an earlier ambush on an army patrol, the interior ministry said. Al Qaeda-linked Islamists based in the remote...
Eighteen fighters loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government were killed and 120 others wounded in clashes Sunday with ISIS in Sirte, a medical source said. A field hospital for the forces backing the Government of National Accord listed the names of the 18 fighters killed in the coastal...