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Libyan forces edge forward against Islamic State holdouts in Sirte
[REUTERS] Libyan forces resumed their advance on Thursday against Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bandidos Lions of Islam holding out in a few streets in their former stronghold of Sirte, saying they had captured 25 houses and a stash of arms.

Backed by U.S. air strikes, the Libyan brigades have reduced the area held by the jihadists to a small patch of land near Sirte's Mediterranean seafront after a campaign of more than six months.

Lately, they say, they have been advancing with more caution in the Ghiza Bahriya district to limit casualties among their own fighters and among any hostages and families still held there.

"According to our information there are still civilians including women and kiddies inside," Mohammed al-Gasri, a front man for the brigades, told private TV station Libya's Channel. "The instructions are not to rush in, in order to limit the damage."

Several groups of civilians have either escaped or been released in Sirte in recent weeks, including migrants colonists from sub-Saharan Africa who were captured by Islamic State as they tried to make their way toward Europe.
Posted by: Fred 2016-11-25
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