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Africa North
A week of air strikes in Sirte
2014-12-28
[Libya Herald] Sirte has seen over a week of sporadic Arclight airstrikes that have hit the port and the local airbase, as it becomes the latest town to be targeted by the Libyan National Army (LNA) as part of its offensive against Libya Dawn
...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar...
The Gurda Ben Airbase on the outskirts of the town was targeted and its runway hit earlier this week, a Local Council Spokesman told the Libya Herald. The port and a power station have also both been struck, causing some damage to buildings, as well as a farm.
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